change+is+inevitable

=Why change is inevitable = ==What is more, our young people are already living in the new education paradigm and they are impatiently waiting for us, their educators, to join them and assist them in making the most of it. They will not wait forever and they are increasingly becoming disengaged and while we fiddle with educational red herrings, Rome burns.== Mark Treadwell

=="I think that it might be useful to think of the collapse of the Soviet Union. I think that seemed to be a system that was as unchangeable as our education system seems to be. It’s a system, I think, that was becoming increasingly incompatible with the modern world for reasons not very different from those that operate in the education system. It tried to run a country as a production line, as a top-down command economy where what people made would be determined by a committee somewhere. We try in our school systems to decide what people will learn in this top-down, centralized way and, for the same reason, it is not compatible with the complexities and dynamic possibilities of the modern world.== ==The decision to make is not whether we will continue with school or change it. The question is whether we’ll wait until we’re driven to the wall and the system is collapsed from within from its own internal contradictions before we decide that we’re going to create conditions that will allow a new system where there’ll be diversity of learning paths, diversity of teaching methods, diversity of subjects to be learned."== Seymour Papert