“Some learning happens all the

time; all learning can happen at any

time.” -Professor Raley

Although schools try to restrict our learning to stay

within the classroom,

learning is going on around us at

all times; it cannot be

contained.

The school tries to be our one and only source of

education, but education is much larger than that.

Education, being a deliberate transmission of Education, being a deliberate transmission of knowledge, is yet only a facet of learning. knowledge, is yet only a facet of learning.

Learning happens both in and out of school.Learning happens both in and out of school.

Learning can be formal, informal, intentional, and

unexpected. Schooling tries to teach only to our formal and

intentional learning, disregarding every other way we learn.

Noise is the learning that is taking place all around us, all the time. It is the residual learning that happens in

a structured environment.

And this other learning that the schools cannot contain is called noise.

Mr. World can’t stop learning

from all this noise!!!

We have an epistemic problem. We don’t know

all of the learning that happens in school,

making it impossible to determine the appropriate

way to structure our schools.

Because the problem of how to control learning cannot be solved, we have to

think to redefine our preconceived notions of the structure and function of

school.

By trying to contain learning within the classroom, we are missing out on all the

other learning opportunities.

We need to think outside the box in order to be fully engaged with our learning students…

…by thinking through our rationale for our standards of public schooling…

…because not all students are the same. Learning can happen in many different ways and in

many different domains.

For all of the For all of the different different students in a students in a school, and for school, and for all the all the limitations of limitations of the teacher, the teacher, schooling is a schooling is a complicated complicated service to service to provide. provide.

Schools must Schools must essentially try essentially try to provide to provide learning of learning of equal quality equal quality for many for many different kinds different kinds of people.of people.

While we don’t have any specific solutions for you to consider,

simply questioning the system at hand sets us in the right

direction.

But so long as we are aware of what is going on, from a critical perspective, we can

acknowledge the problems in school and justifiably speak

up about it.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my

diploma.

Eartha Kitt

So remember, So remember, learning is always learning is always happening, in and happening, in and

out of school. out of school.

The EndThe End

Leah Saltzman

Carolyn Tallman