I defy you not to be moved by KR.
In short he says we have to make the shift from a factory model to an organic model - but he says this a lot better than that.
So how to do this? My big lesson at NPR was that it is too hard to try and change an entire system.
Best to find one or two vectors for change. I have found that a few stations and people will get it and they will discover the new and then spread it.
Big Ed makes public radio and TV look like child's play.
So here is what my evil plan is.
At 2.30 "School" is out and on PEI thousands of kids go to After School Programs. This is the "edge".
Could we not work to make the After School the Petrie Dish where we can find out how to make education a process that draws out of each child their own unique dream? Could those of us with a passion for something help our children find theirs?
If we can then we can infect the kids and then the system.
PS isn't he the best speaker you have ever heard? Step back and think about what is he really doing as he speaks - the Cicero of our time.
