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Similarities between School and Prison

Dwayne Harapnuik — May 3, 2016 — 11 Comments

Source: Learners Voice: Are we really listening? by Graham Brown-Martin

Obviously there are stark differences between school and prison but I couldn’t get the similarities out of my mind after reading the post Learners Voice: Are we really listening? by Graham Brown-Martin in which he points to Ivan Illich’s argument from in his book “Deschooling Society” (1971)

that schools, like prisons, offices and factories have become industrialized institutions hence their similarity in the forms of rules, behaviours and organization.

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If students designed their own schools…

Dwayne Harapnuik — December 11, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Dwayne Harapnuik — September 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

Notable Quotes:

“The Victorians were great engineers. They engineered a [schooling] system that was so robust that it’s still with us today, continuously producing identical people for a machine that no longer exists.”

“It’s quite fashionable to say that the education system’s broken — it’s not broken, it’s wonderfully constructed. It’s just that we don’t need it anymore. It’s outdated.”

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

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Redefine How You View Education

Dwayne Harapnuik — December 11, 2012 — Leave a comment

“There’s a saying which says, ‘If you don’t build your dreams, someone else will hire you to help build theirs.’ Redefine how you view education. Understand its true meaning. Education is not just about regurgitating facts from a book or someone else’s opinion on a subject to pass an exam.” [4:13]

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