And that’s what has been wrong all along. Some time ago we started taking our walls too seriously – not just the walls of our classrooms, but also the metaphorical walls that we have constructed around our “subjects,” “disciplines,” and “courses.” McLuhan’s statement about the bewildered child confronting “the education establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and schedules” still holds true in most classrooms today. The walls have become so prominent that they are even reflected in our language, so that today there is something called “the real world” which is foreign and set apart from our schools. When somebody asks a question that seems irrelevant to this real world, we say that it is “merely academic.”
Peter Horsfield on 25 Oct 13Meet the extraordinary Mikhail Gorbachev. Former statesman of the Soviet Union, politician and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient who is most famous in the world for being the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, as well as the Soviet Union's last leader before its dissolution and transition into the Russian Federation. A true hero to the Russian people. "I always wanted to do something, accomplish something, or take the initiative". To read more about Mikhail Gorbachev visit www.thextraordinary.org
