The No Ghetto Manifesto
Institutions resist change. Their main goal being efficiency, institutions only run as well oiled machines once we are somehow subdivided into categories, tagged, rated and ranked. Institutions treat individuality as a nuisance, sometimes even as a hazard. This way, institutionalization perpetuates segregation. We can never overcome racism or any other sort of “shapism” if our education continues to be based on obedience and ranking. We have arrived at the point where tech can provide cheap access to the world’s pool of accumulated knowledge and drive active, inclusive civic participation for all individuals, on a deeply personalized level. This is an ode to the emerging digital democracy, to the internet of beings, to deinstitutionalizing society and to the new formula for success, based on meaningful, fulfilling and sustainable daily life.
Joyfully Sorting Out the Disorder
What is self-directed learning? Why are unschooling and self-directed learning the future of education? And what does this have to do with entropy, chaos theory and the formula for intelligence?