Tuesday, February 02, 2010
The Next Big Change in Education
The last big change in education was in the early 1900's when most states began to force all students to attend public schools. A hundred years later, the next change will be a movement back home. Like a growing number of jobs, teaching and learning can be done almost as well from a distance using the internet. As a motivated student (that's a key issue) wouldn't you rather hear the best economics 101 professor online than the average professor in person? Or wouldn't you rather be 1 of 500 students in a class and pay 1/10 the price? I'm not suggesting that colleges will cease to exist, there are so many non-economical benefits after all. What I am suggesting is that online classes will become a regular part of college and high school education. Less motivated students will just have to pay more for the personal touch. I'm so sure this will happen in the next few decades, I'm already preparing. My notes are all digital and I'm focusing on Advanced Placement, classes with a tangible benefit for students. If you're worried about how much you can learn by listening to a lecture online, I suggest you check out online lectures of Harvard professor Michael Sandel on Justice.
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"The last big change in education was in the early 1900's when most states began to force all students to attend public schools."
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean schools, not public schools?
They never forced people to go to private schools. It was then that states began to create tax supported schools and forced students to go to them (though I guess some had private tutors or schools).
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean "required people to get an education" as opposed to force students to attend public schools? People have always had the option to opt out of public school for private, religious, or home schooling - as long as they learned to read and add. You make it sound like they used cattle prods to indoctrinate students at public schools. Quit hating.
ReplyDeleteI think you guys are reading a perceived bias into what I'm saying. Yes, in the early 1900's many states began to pass laws forcing students to go to school, public or private.
ReplyDeleteIt's not bias, dude:
ReplyDelete"The last big change in education was in the early 1900's when most states began to force all students to attend public schools."
That is an incorrect statement. It's not factual. The gov't forced kids to go to school, not to go to public school. It's an important distinction, especially for the son of a private school principal :)
But that was just a throwaway intro to a larger idea. How many students do you think could afford private school in 1900? If you were forced, you probably went public. Why are we even arguing about this?
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