What Education Will Look Like in 2111

Here is an excerpt that tries to answer that question -

A university education will be free to every man and woman. Several great national universities will have been established. Children will study a simple English grammar adapted to simplified English, and not copied after the Latin. Time will be saved by grouping like studies. Poor students will be given free board, free clothing and free books if ambitious and actually unable to meet their school and college expenses. Medical inspectors regularly visiting the public schools will furnish poor children with free eyeglasses, free dentistry, and free medical attention of every kind. The very poor will, when necessary, get free rides to and from school and free lunches between sessions. In vacation time, poor children will be taken on trips to various parts of the world. Etiquette and housekeeping will be important studies in the public schools.

Okay, I lied.  That is not a quote about what education should look like in 2111.  It was from The Ladies Home Journal back in 1900!

Looks like we're not quite there yet!  In fact, look at all the issues (such as free health care for all, tuition costs, and ability grouping) that are so volatile today.

I'm sure many tea partiers would love to launch us back 100 years (if not at least 50), but when you read this, it looks like they'd all be just as angry back then as they are now!

Still, it helps keep things in perspective.  The future is never what you think it's going to be.  And neither is the past!