Bricks and Mortar Schools are Detrimental to the Future of Education. (Pre Debate)

1 Comment

• 
  Andrew B. Watt - 3 years ago

  I spent last weekend learning how to spin fire at a tent city in northeastern Connecticut. On Thursday, three hundred people showed up to set up more than 18 tents, a wifi spot, a tent lunch room, and open-air classrooms for teaching performers of ages from 12 to 74 how to play with fire in front of live audiences. I saw classes on poi spinning, juggling, marketing, accounting for business expenses, building a business plan, costuming, making publicity materials, explaining your show to fire marshals and fire safety protocols. On Monday morning, the school instructors fed everyone breakfast, packed up the school and put it in the backs of their cars.

  It's not brick and mortar. It's not even a year-round school. Yet it has as many attendees as the average school. It has a full schedule of classes, 8:00 to 5:00pm. It teaches things valuable and useful to its (self-selecting) attendees. But it's certainly a school.

Comments are now closed for this poll.