learning organizations - schools as factories
February 4th, 2008
Recently I had a chat with a guy studying “school design” in Holland. He was saying how education needed to be optimized and how it needed to be seen as a factory. Where students at the end of their studies are the product of this factory…
It seems to me that many industries are thinking about innovation, and about learning, and about changing the paradigm from a newtonian, cause and efect, linear way to look at the world to a more systemic way of understanding organisations and processes.
And I thought it was strange that schools want to be like factories, and factories want to be like schools…
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Urgh!! Schools should be the total opposite of factories. They’re already factories now - producing grade cattle but not actually developing people.
John Taylor Gatto and John Dewey have great writing on this very subject.
Zulma, estaba dando una vuelta por google y me encontré con tu página,
un muy tardÃo feliz año, saludos,
Giovanni
Pues feliz año tambien! nunca es tarde, que todavia faltan 10 meses en los que se puede ser feliz.
Abrazo.