The future of education (indoctrination) in a networked world ?

[Steven Parker]

 

"Chris Parry, the new chief executive of the Independent Schools Council, said "Matrix-style" technology would render traditional lessons obsolete.

"It's a very short route from wireless technology to actually getting the electrical connections in your brain to absorb that knowledge" - Chris Parry, Independent Schools Council

He said: "It's a very short route from wireless technology to actually getting the electrical connections in your brain to absorb that knowledge."

Mr Parry, a former Rear Admiral, spent three years determining the future strategic context for the military in a senior role at the Ministry of Defence"

 

Kids set for 'Matrix' future - read this

 

"The worldwide picture is, Parry believes, a far bigger threat in the longer term than the ups and downs of the British economy. "Globalisation is a threat to the settled, bourgeois life-style," Parry says (in an unlikely echo of Karl Marx). "We are going to see a lot more volatility in income and social organisation. For schools, that means there are going to be a lot of parents moving into and out of private education as they are suddenly able to afford it or suddenly lose their money."

Admiral Chris Parry on the warpath

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4038899.ece