For those in urban and trailer ghettoes, the outlook is bleak. By failing them, we fail the Martian decency test, and deserve to join the dinosaurs.
Money is not an option: the drug problem just gets bigger. Nor is the excellent set of state proposals UK announced in May 2007, except as problem admitter and definer, both giant steps. Governments by nature and by law cannot invent consumer product.
People can: and the leaders of both major UK political parties have grievous problems among their own offspring, lending people power to this fatwa and the crusade it is part of.
As a first step for learning to work, the process needs flow. The individual in release mode from environment, in control of destiny, empowered to start, stop and go at will. This is not entrapment except by the feelgood mental chemicals, but it usually means the teachers are getting what they want while the learner is enjoying what the teacher wants. Sadly, once the learner emerges from the euphoria, they are either indoctrinated – you should learn like this too when I am a parent or a teacher – or in an individualised society, prone to cynicism.
Seems that flow alone is not enough. Hence the strength of projects where the leader is still carrying the message, but rare is the project that survives its builder. In education it seems that flow is hard to canalise. The learners keep peeping over the edge of the levee, especially when just one of their classes has a boring moment or an off-net teacher or pupil.
The second step is the hard one, for learners, corpoorates, and all in between. Consider the ant for yourself, or see or ask for other posts.
There are solutions coming, largely by melding online with on target, deliverer of system with goodwill interactor. When the olpc project reaches sewer children to where we care enough to do something about them, we may just pass the Martian test.
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