The one-room schoolhouse

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The notion of the one-room schoolhouse has no walls between 'classrooms', no periods/lessons, and learners work together irrespective of age.

Arthur Andersen (the consulting firm) have sponsored the development of a high tech one-room schoolhouse in the USA. Arthur Andersen himself is reported as saying that:

"The traditional education system is obsolete, ... The existing education system is a monument to its own time and place (of a century ago), but a woeful anachronism in ours" (reported in Marcus 1997 paragraph 4).

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Links

These links provide further info about Arthur Andersen's Community Learning Center in Alameda, California.

• http://www.luca.com/cpajournal/1996/0896/nV82f96.htm
• http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/28/BU128924.DTL&type=business

References

Marcus, Jon (1997) One-room schoolhouse keys into the future, Times Educational Supplement, 31st October. http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=156021 (viewed 31-Mar-06)