more spaceships

"To the degree that education is about the transfer of the known
between generations, it can be digitized, analyzed, optimized and
bottled or posted on Twitter. To the degree that education is about
the self-invention of the human race, the gargantuan process of
steering billions of brains into unforeseeable states and
configurations in the future, it can continue only if each brain
learns to invent itself. [...] Roughly speaking, there are two ways to
use computers in the classroom. You can have them measure and
represent the students and the teachers, or you can have the class
build a virtual spaceship. Right now the first way is ubiquitous, but
the virtual spaceships are being built only by tenacious oddballs in
unusual circumstances. More spaceships, please."
-- Jaron Lanier,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/magazine/19fob-essay-t.html?ref=magazine