This page collects a cluster of ideas, proposals, and debates that address the widespread conviction that we must improve the ways we educate ourselves.
I have pulled together these resources for the benefit of my students who often want to discuss and think further about bettering their educational experience. I encourage them to start imagining how they would like to be educated and then to work for their vision.....because, it seems to me, only people who think critically and systematically about the process of their education ever truly understand themselves and their own ideas.
The documents are categorized for easy reference, but they all interconnect in one way or another. And to further the dialogue and interconnection, I invite comments from any readers who might arrive here. I will post comments and create links between documents as the discussion moves along.
Below are links to websites with useful or provocative educational ideas worth keeping in mind. I make no attempt at present all side equally, but I certainly intend to include challenges and counterarguments among the documents. A mind cannot be sharpened on a soft stone, so while this page is devoted to advocacy I anticipate a broad range of belief and argument: do not expect all the links to follow a party line. In that vein, I welcome suggestions for additional relevant documents, and I will make links to documents you may have created and wish to include as part of this forum.
(N.B.: because of MassCollege's internal web organization, some links are only accessible from within the "mcla.mass.edu" domain....sorry)
