Rummaging...

This morning I ran across one of my notes, jotted down on a single sheet of blue steno paper, the words faded from age. It was stuck in the pages of a book I read in high school I pulled off the shelf again the other day. It's a reminder that school reform is nothing new.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. Not only does education continue when schooling ends, but it is not confined to what may be studied in adult education courses. The world is an incomparable classroom and life is a memorable teacher for those who aren't afraid of her.

~John Gardner "Self-Renewal" (1964)