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  By David Czuba - November 28, 2012 12:21 am Log in to Reply

  These conference proceedings by the Holistic Education Network (http://www.hent.org/) start the conversation on education as a humanistic continuing construct, instead of a periodic, interrupted system that compartmentalizes learning. The writers here are founders of a movement: Jack Canfield, Theodore Roszak, Howard Kisrschenbaum, etc. It is interesting to read their insights before the Web age, since they predict the kind of collaborative, interwoven learning necessary for a society to thrive. Today, instead, we still have dinosaur education, modeled to fit industrial molds, supported by the state more than how individuals really learn. Reading this work should move us to get involved in groups like Whatcom Folk School and FourthCornerExchange on a local level, and Kahn Academy or Udacity on a global level.