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Someone at work asked the question: what do you think would be the result of the end of compulsory schooling?  To which I responded:
I predict that there will not be an end to compulsory schooling. Schooling serves some very useful purposes outside of education. It used to be that kids were needed for chores around [...]

John pointed me to a posting at think:lab and asked what I thought. Here’s what I told him, lightly edited:
There’s no question technology can assist educational purposes. Technology has been used that way since the first person used a stick to draw on a wall to explain something. The difference today is technologies are [...]