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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone</div></div><br><br><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000">-------- Original message --------<br>From: William Flynn Wallace </div><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000"><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000">...(Suggested modernized cuuiculum)...</div><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000"><br></div>Cool excellent billw but now I want you to sharpen the question just a bit.<div><br></div><div>This curriculum bill has suggested suits me but what I am really wondering about now is how we deal with modern online learning tools suddenly changing all the usual paradigms.</div><div><br></div><div>We have long thought of education as a ticket into an office somewhere, the starting point of a career. Seldom are these tickets issued to those younger than about 21 or 22. </div><div><br></div><div>OK what if we can now go around all those traditional roadblocks which slowed the racehorses and kept them back with the herd? </div><div>Bill w this is your field. What happens when a generation is suddenly set free and we find what plenty of us suspected for a long time, that it does not take 16 years to master that curriculum you patiently outlined. It doesn't take leaving home, going deeply into debt, doesn't require joining a frat, going to sports events, doesn't really require any of the traditional clutter in and around the usual four year college.</div><div><br></div><div>Did we suddenly introduce a really good alternate path to success, one I have perceived as missing for a long time and needed for even longer?</div><div><br></div><div>I can imagine KA as but one early excellent example of a class of software which could obviate plenty of traditional education, freely available to all everywher, arriving just as traditional college costs have spiraled out of the reach of too many.</div><div><br></div><div>spike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>