Really good animations, really good points, but I don't recall seeing any <i>concrete</i> suggestions in any of these.<p>Are they just high-profile, high-quality rants, hoping to get <i>others</i> to come up with changes? Or is there something more concrete backing these that isn't disseminated with them, preventing their (really good?) ideas from being implemented?<p>I've only seen a few, but are others more <i>useful</i>? They're all <i>interesting</i>, but those aren't the same thing.
For more detail on the background of factory education and the reason for it, and a bit more details on alternatives, check out John Taylor Gatto's works. He's a former NY state educator of the year who came to realize that school as we know it is bad for people.<p>Transcript of one interview:<p><a href="http://www.ttfuture.org/files/2/pdf/gotto_interview.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.ttfuture.org/files/2/pdf/gotto_interview.pdf</a><p>mp3 of another interview:<p><a href="http://jari.podbean.com/mf/web/ja8dm2/LivingHero19--JohnGatto.mp3" rel="nofollow">http://jari.podbean.com/mf/web/ja8dm2/LivingHero19--JohnGatt...</a><p>He also has a couple books in particular "Dumbing Us Down" and "Weapons of Mass Instruction".
I really like the animations (except for the arm, I wish the words just "appeared" sort of like the music video for "heartless" by the fray). Does anyone know of a tool that can help us make this easier?