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Online Education is a Loop Back to the Beginning

Era of Education:  Traditional Tribal Society How Education Was Done: Stories Learn by Helping Adults (Participation)  I do - We do - You do Goal of Education:  Survival Strength:  Multi-generational Cohesion Weakness:  Narrow Focus and No Curriculum  Era of Education:  Greek and Classical Academy How Education Was Done: Lecture by Paid Tutor Didactic Questions Greek Tutors Trained Roman Elites Goal of Education:  Leadership in Complex City or State  Strength:  Broader Curriculum Weakness:  Audience is Elites Era of Education:  Agricultural American One Room School House How Education Was Done: Lecture by Trained Teacher Canon of Text Books  Focus on Basics Reading Writing  Arithmetic  Goal of Education:  Train Citizens and Work Force  Strength:  Broadly Available and Re-enforce Sense of Community Weakness:  Overly Concentrating on the Practical and Functional Era of Education:  Industrial American Consolidated Schools How Educ