Decentralization of learning beats educational factories.

Deanna, this is a powerful personal narrative.  Thank you for your honesty.  What jumps out at your humble servant from your submission are the following three topics.  1.  The power of example to teach others.  2.  The danger of over-emphasis on technology to the exclusion of sociology, or the human factor.  3.  The need to maintain a human, intimate scale in education, the opposite of gargantuan factories called schools.  It seems to this writer that proper use of technology allows us to decentralize and humanize the sociology of learning.  First technology allows us to decentralize. We need not to go to a central place to have library access now!   Second, proper use of learning technologies can free up teachers to pay more attention to human, personal student needs while the technologies handle the "drill and practice" download and delivery of facts, skills.  Yes, we need to move toward the Greek city state model - decentralization - and away from the imperial Roman centralized model.  In time, economics will drive these applications, for they make cost-effective sense.  For instance, decentralized local schools cut back on busing costs.  It is out there!  Dr. Rux