Where to hack education and where to stack it

Prominent venture capitalist Fred Wilson wrote a provocative blog post back in 2008 called Hacking Education, in which he expressed frustration with our current educational institutions and called for replacing them with a grand hack, an internet-enabled "peer production, collaboration, social networking, web video, VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), open source, even game play" platform."

It's great to have smart people and money helping to discover and build innovations in education. Nevertheless does Fred Wilson actually advocate getting rid of schools in every respect in favor of teaching each other on the internet? Otherwise, at that time how far do we want to go?

Fred Wilson admits there are great teachers, however says there are as well lazy ones who know less than Wikipedia does about their subjects. This may be true, yet isn't it so in every profession? Aren't there lazy and crappy doctors and lawyers out there among the good ones? Aren't there good and bad accountants? Helpful and predatory VCs? This is life, nevertheless instead of responding by hacking at our education institutions in favor of choice education on the internet, stack this problem. Raise teacher salaries and pressure the unions to alleviate tenure rights. This combination will increase the ratio of good teachers to lazy ones. At the time hack professional development to help teachers learn how to use the latest research in their classrooms and stay up to date on the most effective teaching/assessment techniques.

Parent/teacher communication — hack it.Extra curricular sports and activities —  stack it.Business, entrepreneurship and personal finance education — hack it.Internships and real-world experience - stack it.Vocational and skills training - stack it.Writing - stack it.Foreign language - hack it.Civics and government - stack it.Gym - stack it.Higher education - hack it nevertheless make sure to go short on Anheuser-Busch if you figure it out.

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