Bring on the learning revolution!

Sir Ken Robinson says it is time to bring on the learning revolution, and quotes the following from Lincoln's message to the Congress in December 1862:

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.

As I have noted many times in this blog, higher education in its current format ought to be re-structured in more ways than one.  But, the status-quo preserving education system ... well, ... if the change does not come from within, I bet it will be forced on the system from the outside ... sooner than one might think.