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 Teachers are valued, highly paid professionals.
Those teachers with the greatest knowledge of
particular subjects have the whole world as their classroom. But the "textbooks"
they create are interactive multimedia learning games, produced by the expert teams who
once produced Nintendo computer games, television commercials and professional TV
programs.
All other teachers are skilled managers of learning
centres where they act as mentors like great sporting coaches always have.
Every person can plan his or her own curriculum at
any age, and have access to the resources to learn the knowledge required, quickly and
easily.
All school-leavers have developed much higher
competence than previously in such basics as reading, writing, mathematics, science,
geography, history and general knowledge - what some call basic "Cultural
Literacy".
The three main "subjects" taught at
school are learning how to learn, learning how to think and learning how to become a
"self-acting manager of your own future". But they are not taught as subjects;
they are integrated as working models of all study.
Schools themselves have been completely redesigned.
They are now round-the-clock community learning and resource centers.
Introductory courses on thousands of
subjects - from accounting to desktop publishing, book-writing to beekeeping - are
available through the World Wide Web, and followed up with coaching at the local community
resource centre. One-day to six-week study courses are common.
Depending on the community, each school may well
have its own farm, forestry plantation, fish hatchery, newspaper or radio station - and
certainly its own pilot industries, where students can test everything in
practice - economics, science, accounting - and often sell the results.
Everyone is a teacher as well as a student.
Few active people are "retired" in the
traditional sense of the word. Instead you'll find 70-year-old carpenters and
engineers training yesterday's school failures to learn new skills while
manufacturing the world's best manipulative learning materials for all preschool
centers, not just those for affluent families.
And you'll find teenage computer and Internet
buffs mentoring and training parents and grandparents in their community learning centre.
Contents Page Preface
Introduction
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