Russell L. Ackoff, Daniel Greenberg.
Turning Learning Right Side Up: putting education back on track.
Wharton School Publishing. 2008
An extraordinary conversation about the very deepest questions…
Today, what is education for?
Where should it take place? How? When?
What is the ideal school?
The ideal lifelong learning experience?
Who should be in charge of education?
And who pays for it all?
Over the past 150 years, virtually everything has changed…except education.
Schools were designed as factories, to train factory workers. The factories are gone, but the schools haven't changed. It’s time for us to return to first principles…or formulate new first principles…and reimagine education from the ground up.
In Turning Learning Right Side Up, two of this generation’s most provocative thinkers—and practical doers—have done just that. They draw on the latest scientific research, the most enduring human wisdom, and their unique lifelong personal experiences transforming institutions that resist change. And, along the way, they offer a powerful blueprint for a thriving society of passionate lifelong learners.