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Some people within the education system do think change is necessary - indeed I've met with a few of those people from the New Brunswick dept. of education while I was over there. I think the issue is that it doesn't take many risk-averse bureaucrats in an org to stall things (unless the change stays under the radar until it's too late, which is exactly what the low cost of open source and personal software enables).

Papert's advice to clueful teachers was: "Realize that nobody knows exactly what you do with the kids once the classroom's door is closed. Be subversive."

-- Seb