[empressplay]

I agree with you. Provide a space with facilitators to keep kids out of trouble and point them in the right direction(s), then just let them have at it.

The whole grade and classroom system is horribly antiquated. Children with ability will follow their more successful peers without any external impetus. Those who lag "behind" (based on whatever metric you choose to use) can get one-on-one assistance from instructors to determine where they're running into trouble.

Personally, I think the "traditional" classroom has always been "broken" and I'll be happy to see the back of it.

[rubberstamp]

Without experiment there won't be progress. New technologies should be adopted to aid learning. Not talking about giving ipads, but about using internet to help with accelerated learning. An analogue to this would be that we can't learn basics of programming or become experts in them just by reading it. You have to practice. Using internet materials to help explain things would do great for both teacher and student. There are many wrong articles about stuff out there, so things will have to be curated though.

Also currently there is a situation where not everyone is able to follow what they truly like. That situation will change when there is a "place" where anyone can learn about anything authoritatively(learning by oneself with internet is very tedious and you never know if you are in right path).