However, the Internet requires more negotiating, more give and take,a nd more tolerance. But you know what, the concensus is more gratifying and more complete. Local is local, but with in the cybercommunity we see things we weren't shown, we hear things we weren't told, we feel things we weren't touched by. The cybercommunity is whole, but we need the local community to feel safe. I see this cybercommunity in relation to education.
Time is the key to education.
The politics of educationis currently bogged down in massive education is ashort time frame on alarge scale. Doomed to failure, because it does not allow for the smaller entities, the scholars who will just need more time. I see the dichotomy presented here as a need for the balance betwixt the national need and the local need and the national need is overbalancing the scale. Not naive, politics is the heavy hand on the educational scale right now while pedagogy is being ignored by the policy makers. I like the cyber community analogy because it lets the local and the nation co mingle and find their level.