From his essay “Why Do Bad Schools Cost So Much?”
Before the so-called “progressive” era in this country there was a vast and impressive non-system of great diversity and autonomy in American education. No one claimed there was any one “best system” and attempted to force it on everyone. According to Lawrence Cremin, a historian of American schools, “Virtually anyone who could command a clientele could conduct classes…Anyone could teach and anyone could learn — and the market, rather than the church or the legislature, governed through many types of contractual relationships.” It was this interplay of opportunities that created the resourcefulness, the industry, and the ingenuity that President John Adams associated with the New England town and which dazzled the world.
Wow. I haven’t read any passages that do a better job of summing up the change that we’re going to help empower through eduFire.
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