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Well, the article uses as an example Chris Anderson and his book 'Makers'. Granted, there's been a great deal of success manufacturing some articles in the home, such as the cottage industry in saxophones in the Houli district in Taiwan ( www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19234329 ), but he misses the mark when you stop to think that you can't manufacture even a single transistor at home, let alone an iphone.
We're a long way from this model of schooling, if it ever gets here--and I think that it is a problem of scale. That is, I think that you can do it in a small community, but it's not possible to have the kind of system they are talking about on a larger scale. So then you have the problem in that it becomes something that an elite can manage, but everywhere? I think not.
Last Edit: Aug 17, 2013 16:59:04 GMT -5 by kumumele