So long as parents still vote with their 'credits' for teachers and conventional 'schools,' that's fine for the profession, but there will be wholesale redundancies in teaching as the expensive confidence trick of the professional capture of knowledge is revealed. There are better and cheaper ways of doing it all. It will also hurt to suggest that teachers might be accorded no preferential status as teachers unless they can prove this by generating to themselves a flow of tax credit transfers. Happily everyone else will become a potential mentor. The operating principle of a dynamic society within a dynamic environment and universe is that everyone is involved, like it or not, and that everyone matters and can make a difference.
Connectivity is paramount.
Everyone needs as few barriers to participation as possible, but as local circumstances vary the nature of learning webs will vary enormously. This is now possible. Today's ubiquitous information technology means that the major obstacles to Illich's desire for learning webs are now removed. For many involved with 'human scale' or 'community education' information technology might seem alienating yet integrated in a user-orientated way, we believe it allows a breakthrough for learning webs. If the shift towards a more resource-efficient autonomous society is important and the 'systemic' and 'organic' metaphors are pertinent it is possible to summarise some of the principles and practical solutions to providing such a learning web effectively.