Presented by Adrian Perez.

• went to private catholic school... would homeschool his kids
• went to kindegarten Montessori school

• creativity worker manipulates knowledge... vs industrial worker... who manipulates machines
  • obedience, lack of focus (switching classes breaks focus)
  • age segregation
• went to college became disenfranchised... searching for a new school/opportunity... read a book about a school called Summerhill in England... school based on freedom
  • democratically run; everyone is a stakeholder, 1 vote per stakeholder
  • free to study whatever you want
  • free to study when they wish, no curricula
  • no age segregation
  • it took 6 mos for people to regenerate upon arrival
  • grade school to high school
• sudbury
  • $8K/semester
  • not as broad a computer engineer, but "when there are blind spots i see them a repair them"
  • impulse for acquisition of knowledge should be immediate.. very short feedback loop... query --> response; feedback loop is cheap the more you scale down... parallelism makes the feedback loop longer; more people more wait time
  • mountainlaurelsudbury.org/Rithmatic.asp
• ideal university
  • the great conceit: core curriculum is fascism... "there is an ideal student"
    • "these are things people need to know to operate in the real world"
  • go to classes when you want; lectures recorded (textbook is the original recording); office hours/dialogue take the place of lectures

• what are you assumptions?
  • people want to learn
  • people don't have to worry about the basics

• what if the entire education system were distroyed?
  • staged forest fire...

• "vision without implementation is provocation"
• "what's the most important thing you could do right now and why aren't you doing it?"

thoughts/observations

• how to build a better civilization?
• how to give people the ability to live a satisfying and happy life?
• how to give people the ability to meet their needs?
• what kind of cultures should education support?
• how do we create chaos? how do we give us each the opportunity to pursue a satisfying existence?
• be aware of your mother culture bias