BOOBY-TRAPS ON THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD - EDUCATION AND ADULTS

In the structured world of education as schooling as in the rest of th e system, those who teach are 'divorced' from those-who-learn. The thi nkers of new thoughts are outnumbered by, and shut out from, the packa gers of these thoughts who must reconcile this new and dangerous knowl edge to the demands of the system. And those who implement official ag enda become a generation removed from the original reasoning behind th e agenda. An underclass of learners has ceased to believe, and is drop ping out, reverting to ifs earliest programming and is finding realist ic ways of looking after itself.