Education's EcologyWhy Teaching, Textbooks, Testing & Technology are Not Enough.Part I Schools Must Go In Part One we will identify first a series of problems that beset schools and that a culture has developed that has alienated society while society has heaped more and more on the bureaucracy of schools, and schools have assumed a role as a social services agency. Accordingly our systems of schooling have abrogated the social contract and the contract should be annulled. In this part I will affirm that our current or contemporary paradigm for education is untenable. That is to say that what we do for education is by-and-large a mess that has been created across more than a Century. The system of schooling for education has not fundamentally changed and, I will contend, it cannot change. Efforts to fix or reform schools are fundamentally wrong-headed. In the following four chapters I will argue that schools have taken on far too many problems that are societal and not at all inherent to schools per se. Schools are an embedded social dogma, accepted and sustained without questioning. Our social contract has been broken by slavish schooling and doing the same thing while expecting better results is social insanity. Chapter I—Schools have Massive Problems—our public schools accumulated such a broad range of challenges had have been too overwhelmed to deal with an ideal of equality. Chapter II—Schoolism & Schoolists—identifies the vested interests in maintaining the tenacious paradigm of schooling. Chapter III—Our Social Contract—fostered the role of schools responding to social issues and other social agents have not emerged. Chapter IV—Expecting Better Results—we keep doing the same things and expecting better results. Uploaded 12 December 2024 |