Digressio: Inherit the Humanities
Digressio: Inherit the Humanities
Ep 7 - The Hidden Assumptions of the 5-Day School with Rusty Olps
Rusty Olps tells us about the lesser-known roots of the modern school system, and the affects of incidentals like age-based placement and 5-day a week attendance.
INTRO:
The Jubilee School
Lewis Clark Christian School
Kepler Education
OUTLINE:
1. The Prussian Model of Education
2. Horace Mann's Report of an Educational Tour, 1844
3. Incidentals of the Modern School
4. Diversity of learners, age-based grades, achievement-based advancement, 3-day model
5. The flipped classroom model
6. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined - Salman Kahn
7. Homeschooling, Jubilee, and Kepler
8. How parents can help improve their 5-day schools
FURTHER READING:
The German Conspiracy in American Education - Gustavus Ohlinger 1919
Prussia and the German System of Education - Arthur Bott
The Myth of the Common School - Charles Leslie Glenn Jr.
John Taylor Gatto
Disrupting Class
Deschooling Society- Ivan Illich
So You Want to Start a School? - Brian Daigle