October 11, 2004

• Topic: Thanks Dara

  
  

  Thanks to a post from my friend Dara, I’ve discovered a new critical term in my question to revoultionize higher education.  “Democratic education.”  I’ve just found an amazing site, www.educationrevolution.org (I wrote an article in the Wash U. newspaper this year called the education revolution).  It has a pretty thorough list of “innovative colleges,”

  
  

  Lots of new leads to look into…

  
  

  It’s kind of scary though.  In my head I’ve dreamed all about these different types of schools, and once I find these websites, I grow scared.  Alternative education in practice is still like a foreign country to me.  I know once I get involved, and actually meet people face-to-face, things will be good.  And it’s strange that although the schools I’m finding and the people involved with them speak of the exact educational philosophy which I hold, I worry about them being, “too out there,” even though that’s exactly what’s required.

  
  

  I really need to get myself into a new environment.  At Washington U. in St. Louis, I am surrounded by my past.  My future isn’t here.  I need to gain experience from those organizations that already hold my philosophy.  I’m still going to try to just introduce my philosophy here, but, I can learn so much more by placing myself in one of those foreign environments…my future is once again in the air… 

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