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jtuck004

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14. Xchrom, I read that, and on page 4 they get into solutions, but making those changes could
Sun May 20, 2012, 10:37 PM
May 2012

take a lifetime, and still fail.

I ran across an article "2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030" - a TED talk by Thomas Frey. Among the discussion, self-described as a "wakeup call" rather than "gloom and doom", was this

Jobs Going Away
•Teachers.
•Trainers.
•Professors.

New Jobs Created
•Coaches.
•Course designers.
•Learning camps.


Those jobs he describes as increasing in number have the possibility of a lot more room for implementing those changes, staying out from under the thumb of what has been happening, what is continuing.

Maybe a cooperative, democratically run "Learning Camp". Maybe borrow songs from the Danish Folk Schools, Labor, and others they might only need a few weeks of exposure to foment something in their heads. Maybe combine it with a math camp.

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