A detailed explanation of the Education 2000 proposals for structural change in schooling based on the Trust's study of effective learning strategies and a better appreciation of the operation of the brain.

Forward

The future belongs to those who know how to learn

Much of our present education system is out of date. It over relies on the traditional classroom as the main place of learning. It does not use much of the recent research evidence on how the brain can function much more efficiently. Unless these assumptions are reversed, the future generation will under-perform.

Education 2000 does not believe that this system need continue. A new 'model of learning' is quickly becoming available; all the parts needed for this are already known. To draw these together and create learning opportunities that match natural learning strategies, and exploit the potential of the new technologies of information and communication, is the challenge which can now be taken up. It is all now possible. Someone will do it soon - in some country. This book sets out the argument for change, and shows why these ideas should be pioneered in Britain.

The argument challenges the listener to 'make connections' between a number of ideas normally studied in isolation. To be able to do this, we each need insight into a range of specialist areas beyond our normal expertise.

Experience has shown that the argument is best handled in a somewhat circuitous manner, rather than in the linear sequence of a book written to be read, not spoken. The author makes no apologies for this.

A number of key points are made, first, at a general level, and then revisited and expanded as the argument comes together. Education 2000 calls for fresh thinking in order to look at familiar issues from a new perspective. Most of us are not good at doing this; we think we have seen it all before.

"It's not people's ignorance you need to fear, it's what they know which darn'd ain't true any longer that causes all the problems', noted an American social commentator more than a century ago. Nothing much has changed!

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