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From: gary@basis.UUCP (Gary Babcock)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures,comp.edu
Subject: Re: High Schools of the Future
Message-ID: <188@basis.UUCP>
Date: 23 Dec 87 17:04:10 GMT
References: <2285@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: BASIS, Berkeley, CA
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Keywords: Technology, Schools
Summary: PLUS CA CHANGE

In article <2285@dasys1.UUCP>, patth@dasys1.UUCP (Patt Haring)
re-posts an essay from
>"The Public High School in the Year 2010: A 
>National Delphi Study," doctoral dissertation by Margaret E. 
>McCabe, Copyright 1984 (UMI 8401629).

It is kind of a fun vision which Ms. McCabe cooks up.

It is an old vision and not very innovative by my standards.
See _Education and Ecstasy_ by George Leonard for a 20-year
old version of the same futuristic look at education.

Lately I have been amused to recall how when I was a
child in the 50's we saw serious "Visions of the Future"
promoted on all sides -- and by competent scientists --
which had us all zooming about in helicopters,
buying tickets at airports to fly to the moon, and other
equally fanciful ideas... by 1975!  The most enduring
vision I remember was of a family of four in a motorized,
three-wheeled glass bubble, scooting along a freeway
with no one at the steering wheel.  The whole family was playing
cards on a table while a computer steered them towards a dazzling
city on the horizon, all glittering glass towers and
freeways.

I rest my case.
/gary