Greetings,
Although I have not met Marion Brady in person he and I have
known each other for several years. We first met on the defunct K12Admin
listserv.
Marion is a thought-leader in education. He has an education
column in the Washington Post. His views on what is required to transform the
education paradigm are profound and provocative (for those who embrace the
outdated Industrial Age paradigm of education).
Marion asked me to share with you four premises that he
believes, if enacted, would transform the education paradigm.
His note appears below.
I hope you will engage Marion in a dialogue about his
premises.
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Frank,
I've been trying for decades, with minimal success, to
promote a simple idea acceptance of which would have major consequences on the
institution. I'm wondering how you'd feel about distributing it and encouraging
dialogue.
Stripped to essentials, I argue that:
(1) Good mental organization is the key to maximum
intellectual performance.
(2) The core curriculum is a poor mental organizer.
(3) All humans, from birth, use a far better one.
(4) Helping learners lift this organizer into consciousness
and make deliberate use of it radically improves academic performance in ALL
subjects.
Our natural organizer doesn't REPLACE school subjects, just
makes them SUB-organizers.
