Factory Schooling

Style of Schooling informed by the Industrial Age mindset.

The Anti Patterns that make me want School Reform:

• standardization/monoculture: expecting every school (in the country) to work in a similar way, to continuously improve on increasingly-frequent Standardized Tests.
• splitting up the Intertwingularity of the Real World into separate Subjects
• including Subjects that might make sense in theory but in practice are completely useless for 90% of the students
• fixing a daily schedule of short periods so there's no chance of Flow State
• filling the Curriculum of each subject with a near-infinite pile of meaningless trivia: factoids without meaning, process/structure without Context/feedback (real-world feedback, not grading)
• every class is essentially pass/fail, meaning everyone who doesn't fail gets moved on at the same time, and everyone who fails repeats all the same stuff again
• splitting/grouping up students randomly by age rather than interest or ability

A big question is how much of this is a Side Effect of Universal/Compulsory Education?

see also (2015-04-25) Watters Messy Factory Schooling History

Alternative: Generative Schooling