This I believe essay on the the Harlem Children zone 

Harlem Children's Zone website

 

 

Harlem Childrens Zone wikepedia 

Quantum School... was a brief experiment in education in Chile. We took children from the poorest neighborhoods and  set up a unique childcare and bi-lingual   

 

Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the education establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules"

Marshall McLuhan 1967

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"Education is the most powerful tool you can use to change the world."  Nelson Mandela

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunesaburo_Makiguchi

Tsunesaburō Makiguchi  An example of his proposals was the creation of an educational system comprising a partnership of school, home and community, each of which had responsibility for a specific part of the educational task. In this system, a child would spend half day in school and the other half in apprenticeships and other types of work activities at home and in the community befitting the nature and needs of the child. Mr. Makiguchi felt that implementing his proposed system would change bored, apathetic learners into eager, self-directed students.

He devoted much consideration to the relationship between life and education, developing his theories on the creation of value, the happiness of the individual, and the prosperity of society at large.

 

2006

 

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