Triadic Philosophy
A Universal Way of Life for the 2000s
1/6/13
Curiosity-based smaller-scale educational opportunities facilitated by a car-free environment
Education is unjust in today's society
and the solution lies in creating car free communities
We need communities where children can walk free
This requires a complete rebuilding
Since we do not have that yet
the outline of what it would look like
will have to suffice
and the plan will have to be developed piecemeal
based on local conditions and desires
The injustice of education is the result of stratification
and discrimination in the use of resources
But the
real problem of education is not just this injustice
Education suffers from the defeat of choice and curiosity
among all who would learn
Education suffers from a one size fits all approach
when the truth is we all learn differently
Education suffers from the creation of classes
where individual attention is scarce of nonexistent
Education results from the gratification of curiosity
Education occurs when curiosity meets resources
A walkable community would have multiple educational
cyber-nodes
Education would be everywhere - a permanent fair
whose booths or kiosks
attract on the basis of interest
Teachers would be guides with the
world at their fingertips
and the capacity to field questions
and mentor the interested
Even such elementary things as learning to read and write
and do elementary mathematics
would benefit
Imagine a
car free community of at least 10,000 persons
where students number
a third of the population
Students could walk to the Math Kiosk
and find the best instruction in the world
on a large screen a whole group could see
Iterations of learning centers for all ages
and all interests would turn education from its present
stratified one-size car-dependent retro state
to a vital community-based
enjoyment
based on the presence of all concerned
living and working and re-creating
in one community
Curiosity should lead education
Achievement should be determined
by meeting benchmarks gradually
Success should be a satisfactory exchange
between teacher and curious child
In a car-free urban environment
security would be ensured by
the rules of the community
which could mandate that residents
not own guns
and that bullying require
immediate remedial intervention
Such seemingly draconian steps
represent the trade off between the violence prone society
we now have
and a car free cyber-society whose
economy supports radical shifts such as one from
today's stratified factory schools
to the voluntary curiosity-based smaller-scale
educational opportunities facilitated by a car-free environment
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