Education Automation

Fuller's education argument is that school should help the new life acquire the latest decontaminated information, not lock it into obsolete conventions. He treats learning as environmental design.

Main claims

• Education should be automated by piping reliable information into the environment.
• The "new life" should be freed from bad inherited answers and social reflexes.
• Students are born with major competence drives, especially the drive to demonstrate competence.
• Universities should be places where integrators learn to put things together.
• Fuller's world map and world-trend analysis are tools for global planning, not local habit.

Why it matters

• This is Fuller's clearest statement of education as a design problem.
• It links pedagogy to geography, planning, and global systems.
• It anticipates later arguments about comprehensive design science and the critical path.

See Also

• Critical Path — the broader world-design program this education argument feeds
• 4D Time Lock — early statement of Fuller's design economics
• Earth, Inc — companion world-accounting synthesis
• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth) — related work
• Utopia or Oblivion (Utopia or Oblivion) — related work
• Wholeness (Wholeness) — related work
• Benjamin Bloom (Benjamin Bloom) — related figure
• Peter H. Wagschal (Peter H. Wagschal) — related figure

Sources

• education_automation/ — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
• index.md — project index
• education_automation.md — full book text