Changes in Education

As is usual after attending a conference (I attended UELMA today), I am wondering how we can implement sweeping changes in the way we educate students. It is a catch 22. We can see that things need to change, we talk about them, and then we return to the same system and keep on doing what we have always done. The problem is we are not given the opportunity to change the structure. We need time, a lot of time, to create a different system. It is like we are trying to repair the car whose engine needs overhauled while we are still driving it around. We aren't making much progress. Over the weekend or even over the summer we make minor repairs. As we start to make small amounts of headway we realize it is August and we have to throw things back together and start driving the old clunker around again.