The lessons of complexity are instructive when it comes to the challenges of education. Any system with single points of failure or success will adapt very slowly. When they are administered by bureaucracy, they will adapt and succeed and evolve even slower, to the point of stagnation. While industries decentralize and empower smaller groups to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world, our governments are centralizing further. This method constrains innovation and ignores cost, regardless of the purity of our experts' hearts. We are doing a great deal of research, but little trial. The prejudice between thought and action should be reversed. [...]
