The Octopus Movement White Paper on Education: Solving the Unsolvable
what if we gave people money + time + safety + connections to build/improve their own X? e.g., you have 50k and 12 months to build your own master’s programme, or you have 80k and 24 months to become a skilled sculptor, or you have 150k and 18 months to build your own lab. what if you then organised these people into interdisciplinary groups/scenes
... See moreOn Education and Teaching Kids “Sooner or later, parents have to take responsibility for putting their kids into a system that is indebting them and teaching them to be cogs in an economy that doesn’t want cogs anymore. Parents get to decide . . . [and] from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., those kids are getting homeschooled. And they’re either getting home-sch
... See moreWhy the shibboleth of continually rising school leaving ages and continually expanding higher education? Why not look hard at the half of all school leavers who emerge from high school with very little, and ask why this is the case? Why do we force them to attend school when they don’t want to attend and when there is so little evidence for the suc
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