A plan? Hah!

After deciding on a plan to improve education (over a year ago), and declaring it, both to myself and to those around me, I took some time to break my ideas down into a more detailed working plan, with quarterly milestones and deadlines… And then life happened.
The milestones and deadlines came and went, making their characteristic “Whooosh” sound. Together with the predictably unpredictable difficulties of turning my plan into a reality, a few unexpected opportunities arose.

I chanced to meet a group of people who felt and continue to feel strongly about the need to provide a diverse range of schools for parents and students to choose from. Not only are they convinced that educational diversity is good for everybody, but they also act upon their convictions.  Imagine that.

Opportunity for cooperation is precious; a chance to work with people who act, who put their irreplaceable time and attention where their mouths are, should be seized. Therefore, the opportunities that presented themselves directed my activity toward creating an infrastructure for building new and diverse education establishments.

This activity corresponds with the ideas that appear in this blog under the headings of “Market Economy,” “Distributed Establishment,” “Freedom of Choice,” etc.  The goal of knowledge sharing and building, referred to in this book mostly in the context of research, becomes an effort secondary to building the schools. The final issue, complementary to the idea of diversity, is that of regulation, and it now awaits its own opportunity to be addressed.

Things are looking up.