Response #5 School Reform

School Reform

It seems as though the argument being made in this article is that the real reason for public school reform is because it currently is set up in a way that feeds into the failing cycle that has lead to the state our economy is in now. The current model was arranged to produce a new generation that would carry on the capitalist way of life and now that society is being hit hard by a failing economy we wonder, where do we change the system? The answer seems to lie in the school system.

Knowing much less than those who are most likely devoting their lives to this issue, I would at least be willing to say that this “capitalist” model of the public school served as a great way for this country to get where it is today. However, it is unfortunate that there was no plan to reform the school system after becoming such a dominant world power. I suppose the reason for this is because those who find themselves in power and without so much as a single worry about their finances in the midst of our financial crisis would prefer to not upset a cycle that has benefited them so well.

Now that our country is at a place where doing things the way they have been done for years and years, centuries and centuries isn’t working anymore what do we do? The capitalist form of education is what has led to books like “Some Place Like America” being written, it has led to Americans who have relied on an education to get a degree now being unemployed and homeless. This is why we need to explore what we have been exposed to by people such as Ken Robison who see the need in cultivating the creativity in all of us as children instead of mass producing robotic human beings who fallow the rules and know their place in the world due to the “need” of continuing on in a way of building huge corporations.

There are enough billion-dollar corporations that can contribute to the economy of the United States, but if we were to actually invest in the creativity of our children I wonder what the future would hold, not only for them and not even for America but also for the world. I have a feeling that just as our nation experienced a boom in the economy as a result to the industrial revolution we would just the same experience a boom in a whole new way if the school systems where flipped upside down and children were not taught the rules of the “real world” but were exposed to endless opportunity to create a new world, a world that no one has ever seen before. We could be limitless if we could let loose the mysteries that live inside our heads. Lets no longer be victim to a dying way of life whose final cycle is hopefully coming to and end.