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He also refers to a conversation with a colleague about the potential of new techonologies to open up more ways for learners to interact with their learning. This is great, but his colleague suggests that anything that takes control away from schools will be discouraged. Schools as an institution are enemies of real changes. His colleague goes on to say "But things were 'different' in the 40s and the 60s and the 80s...all these things that were supposed to change education and never did..." This reminds me of John Holt. He started out trying to change schools, and ended up deciding that was too big. Changing schools in a fundamental way, turning them upside down, is too hard. His goal became encouring families to find a new way to learn. To find learning everywhere in life. To realize that life is the place where real learning takes place, and that school seperates kids from that kind of learning.