220 Teaching Minds we keep trying to prevent this from happening with kids. Lots of TV, that’s the ticket. Major learning by-doing mechanism ignored: And last but not least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn by doing. That is how we learn. Doing. Got it? Apparently not. Very little doing in schools. Unless you count filling in circles with number 2 pencils as doing. Online education can change all this. Build it right once and children the world over will have the opportunity to learn how to think and to learn how to work. Such a system would be capable of changing fast. Any new industry or market or technology could produce a course in what is needed to work in that field and instantly get the people it needed. Schools are an ancient artifact that can’t last much longer. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023966