Learning is a social and civic activity. Every place can be a place of learning. Different communities will define different learning solutions. Diversity of perspective is critically important and can be a strength. Learning communities continuously experiment, experience and expand their capacity for risk.
Every failure is considered an opportunity for further learning.
This standard can be a special challenge for formal, public-sector learning organizations. Learning communities hold standards constant across arbitrary time lines. The success of learning communities may be measured, in part, by how well they are able to build and sustain trust, to handle conflict among their members, and to address diversity and conflict accordingly. For the long term the goal should be to achieve attitudinal, rather than merely structural, change in approaches to learning. The current educational system has achieved the mandate it was given - the mandate has now been changed, and so the paradigm must change.