what if i like things the way they are
What if I/we like things the way they are?
This isn’t about forcing anything, or getting rid of anything. Public ed should be – concerning all the people. A people agenda. This is about and ness.
You want to be a doctor? Great. You want to learn to dance, solve world hunger, write code for people, build a treehouse. Super, we can facilitate that.
The benefit to those (most likely 10%) who truly love school as is, they won’t be spending 7 hours a day in spaces with a lot of people who aren’t choosing to be there. That means, less time on classroom management. That means, your professor/teacher will be fresh, because they will have spent less of their time on professional development for classroom management, and test prep, and test feedback, et al. That means you will have more resources and funds to do the things you need/want to be doing/experimenting with. [Again because of less time/money/energy on prepping/training/doing classroom management – most often to little avail. Unless you count research saying now 95% of people admit to cheating as success.]
The biggest issue is, who’s deciding what matters.
Make sure it’s you. You are the only one in charge of the day, for you, until the day you die. Make it count.
Once you decide, cool, we can facilitate that. Even on a daily basis of changing your mind. That means you get to hit refresh every day.
This is about uncovering 7 bn curiosities everyday.. which begs going deep enough to get to.. ie: science of people ness and free-will ness
If equity is everyone getting a go every day.. redefining public education becomes revolution of everyday life.. aka: global equity
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update years later to my own writing above [ie: if we think we like things the way they are.. more evidence of deeply embedded intoxication]:
1\ on deciding what matters:
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
2\ on public education:
believing (since we now have the means) that public means all and educe to draw out (aka listen with that nonjudgmental means).. we found.. once freed up to do whatever we wanted.. craved other people (story board [2008 to present]
findings from on the ground ness deep dive on why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
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