next decade, this 30 million will grow to 100 million. To meet this staggering demand, a major university needs to be created each week" (1996). 
"Our ancestors sailed across a vast ocean, one third of the earth's surface, and to accomplish this great feat they needed the vision to see islands over the horizon, the ability to plan intentional voyages of discovery, the discipline to train physically and mentally, the courage to take risks, and a deep sense of aloha to bind the crew together during the voyage. These are Hawaiian values but they are also universal values. They worked in the past and they will work today" (
instead of seeking radically new opportunities to develop school-as-it-can-be" (Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, in 
matter. What matters to me is the determined space and time where determined tasks are accomplished. Social historical and political tasks, not only individual ones. . . . The two main tasks of the school: to get the already known knowledge and to produce the knowledge not yet in existence" (In Seymour Papert's 
and to consider the action of others to give point and direction to his own, is equivalent to breaking down barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their activity" (
Beata Mostafavi (The Flint Journal): “‘Baker Online changed everything,’ she [Lund] said. ‘No matter how bad I felt, I could keep doing it … and when I left New Jersey for Georgia and then to 
Mississippi, I could take college with me.’ No re-applying for financial aid, no re-doing credits, just re-connecting to the Internet. . . . Lund is among the growing number of students who have found the Flint-based Baker Online program that swelled from 2,900 students in 2005 to 4,700 students in 2007.” (“Degree seemed virtually impossible, until student logged on to Baker College Online,” mlive.com, 14 Apr 2008)
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