The crisis in school education has reached the point of inflection

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The invention of schools as the social institution entrusted with mass education of children most amazingly supported the industrial revolution despite several inherent structural deficiencies. The five of the more troublesome structural deficiencies are: Schools could not skill students as self-learners. Schools could not adequately educate even the majority of enrolled students – schools could […]

Schools are ill-designed for providing quality education in knowledge society

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A very important question, any discussion on it hinges on the definition of ‘quality education’. The schools as we see today, ‘the industrial society schools’, have a very simple definition of quality – maximise the fraction of total students who excel in the public examination that assesses the knowledge of the prescribed syllabus. In other […]

Schools matured in organizational terms, over the past 200 years

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It is very revealing to explore the evolution of the organizational aspects of schools over the past 200 years. To be specific in comparison, we have chosen five important organizational dimensions as listed in the tabular representation. We have analysed and reported the state of each dimension at the two end-points – 1810s (chosen to […]