Layoff Notices Sent to Thousands of US Teachers

[Ed Jewett]

The clear trend is toward the creation of resilient communities. Home schooling, previously aligned at times with a religious and even fundamentalist leaning, can be (must be) part of that (once it has winnowed away the religious and fundamentalist curricula). I think the essential task before us is to establish an archival and distributive system in the various skills, intelligences, etc. and to understand truly, critically, how community works. Shamans and spiritual leaders and healers do play a role. There must also be a village specialist in how to perceive, how to think, etc. Howard Gardner has a prescription in his books. We must all become teachers, and we must all become responsible for sowing the future.