But what is perhaps the more challenging task falls on the education architects who will need to reinvent the learning environment to match the times. When people say we can only do it the way we did, they are looking in the rear-view mirror and assuming what we did in the past will work in the future. What she didn't know is that the cost of airfare would go up so much and I'd be able to watch a movie on cable. There is no need to go to Chicago. Students from a performing arts high school in Lakeland, Fla., are able to pursue music, drama or dance along with their traditional subjects.
Education is the most regulated of any state association.
It would be nice if they could be entrepreneurial. In the business world what happens every day is somebody creates a new widget that fits in some place. Schools will increasingly be operated by someone other than the state, whether by parents who are home schooling, churches that offer parochial education or corporations that provide schools for the benefit of their employees. I think we're going to see mixtures of home schools, and separation of church and state probably will be bent more. I think generally it will be a good thing.