The City as Classroom, Education Outside the School House.

A CITY EDUCATION.

Alvin Toffler once told an audience that more education was taking place in conference centers than school rooms. The same thought applies to the city. While the COVID-19 remote learning experience has shown that we do not want to get rid of face-to-face classroom education at the school house, we have come to appreciate other learning venues.

First, to get past the current learning and teaching arrangement, on-line learning has its place. That place is not at the primary point of student learning, but it has a role and after the COVID- 19 emergency passes, some remnants of it will prevail and add a positive augmentation to the face-to-face classroom methods.

Second, a great deal of learning is life experience, a current catch phrase, outside the classroom. The city with its city life is big player in providing a “complete” education to a child or an adult.