RE: Grounding Tenet for Learning

"We must become the change we want to see"   (Mahatma Gandhi)

Transformation is revolutionary.  It is the gestalt of all the accumulated changes to equal more than the sum of all of the changes.  You cannot effectively manage a new age revolution with industrial age skills and tools. 

"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.  Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.  All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
(GEORGE BERNARD SHAW)

A new paradigm is necessary to manage perceptions and change beliefs about the potential genius of all children.
If you change the rules, you change the culture.  

The seeds of change are sown when your existing practices become outdated and you are forced to explore alternative methods of accomplishing your goals.  However, great change brings great resistance.

The school calendar is based on a pre-industrial agrarian paradigm that stopped teaching in the summer to allow children to help with farm work.  When Carnegie established "units," an industrial/manufacturing paradigm was imposed on education.  We now live in a post-industrial/technological paradigm where the rules have changed, but the structures have not.

Education's paradigm dilemma is that our schools function on an agrarian calendar, with an industrial mindset, in a technological world.  The bell shaped curve needs trashing in favor of embracing multiple intelligences and learning styles.