To make this individualized learning system a reality also requires that we as a society make the shift away from what Lyell describes as edifice-based learning. We have an educational system today where 99 percent of the capital goes into buildings. If you take a person from 100 years ago and put them on a street corner, they'd be blown away. But if you take that person and put them in a classroom, within five minutes they would know exactly what's going on. Any other industry has changed dramatically over 100 years.
Education has to go through that transition.
There's got to be a way to bring the two elements closer together and let kids experience the magic of learning something. That's not to say learning has to be fun all the time, because we all know that sometimes the stuff we value the most is the stuff we've struggled with. Susan Schilling in einem Interview mit Wired 5.01 What we need to do is rethink the process of learning in a way that's suited to the digital age. The traditional approach of the teacher who transmits information to the learner is very centralized. We need to find ways for learners to take more responsibility for their own learning.