In reply to Harold Jarche » Born in a storm.

System ChangeThanks Jacques;

What I'm trying to get at here are a couple of fundamental questions:

If the system needs to change, will it break before it changes?
Can change be made incrementally?

As Downes reports on Papert:

"To save the schools, we have to break them. The current move toward standardization is a last gasp, "the last twitch of the dragon's tail" as the old system dies. It is natural, in such a time, for the bureaucracy to close ranks, to centrally impose something like standardization "instead of its direct opposite, higher standards."