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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 [...]

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 [...]