http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

Mr. Gatto is a teacher that disagreed with the way we teach our youth and left his job when he was told he was right, but things could not be changed. He began uncovering somethings that you may or may not know.

Like I said, because it’s a great post!

Thanks for stopping by! Ah, the context of your post makes things much clearer.

I’ve worked in big and small corporations too, and I know that good big corporations can actually adapt quite quickly…surprising, but true. In fact, I think the shift has been made that they have to or die…So you’re right on there…

Schools too are changing…not so much the public school systems, but private ones…where the shift is from text books to actual hands on learning…that’s good, because it teaches people to actually use info…

Your post is great! It’s an eye opener.

I’ll definitely be back…hope you can stop by here every once in awhile too!

In order to understand some of them you have to know a little about my blog. I write about new media management. So I spend a lot of time writing about the future and current changes going on in society.

Now (as my regular readers know) I am under the belief that the changes going on now in society are as drastic as the ones that occured when we moved from an agricultural to a manufacturing society.

That change changed everything from family structures to the way people think.

Now take a look at tests. Actually you can look at schools. Schools were made in an industrial age. Kids are taught like it’s an assembly line. Tests are like quality control. My argument is that that kind of thinking is over.

We teach kids to past test, not to think. So what happens when they get out of school? You find that the most successful are those who don’t think in a cookie cutter/ assembly line/ pass the test way. Hence, tests don’t matter.

Now about corporations. If you looked at my bio on my site you’ll see that I have worked at some large corporations. I get them. And they are slow.
This is not the age of the slow. The future is all about speed. Being able to react to your customers faster.

Take for example your blog.
If it was part of a big corporation then everything would have to be run by different channels before you could post anything and nothing relevent would ever get posted.

That’s because that’s how corporations move.

We are living in an age of institutional collapse. It’s why the schools don’t work, the government doesn’t work or any other institution that has been around for a while.

They were built for the 20th Century and it’s a 21st Century universe.

I’ll stop now because I see I have been writing wwayy too much.

But thanks for droping by my blog.

You are always welcomed back!