The Education Issue: Why flexible learning environments?
(WorldNews New Zealand)

Education has been a valued part of life in all cultures for centuries, however it is only since the industrial revolution that the current concept of a school has emerged. Charged with the need to introduce basic literacy and numeracy skills as preparation for working in the factories, educators of the day used the form and processes of factories as a model in which students are assigned to classrooms with a teacher and progressed through a `production line` model of education. Even the bell was a...