There are 3 major processing areas the brain sends information to in developing reason and creativity. I’ve assumed the front left area was developed with basic foraging and hunting, the rear left of the brain with tool use and communication and greater reason developed through the right rear brain area.
The basis of these assumptions are fairly straight forward. The front portions of the brain I assume are heavily connected to sight and other senses and reflex development. Reflexes would be developed and refined through the left rear with likely regulatory supervision with the right rear brain section. I will stand corrected here if clarifying reference is provided.
I will somewhat justify these assumptions with reference to the understanding/knowledge/wisdom progression assumed by the characters who have recorded man’s early awareness of the mind’s condition. At least at first glance this appears congruent with the contemporary understanding of the mechanisms and processes of the human brain. In this light I’d also identify these individuals as members of society that provided a non-biased higher learning service to the community at a time when public education largely revolved on trade apprenticeships and in-house political tutelage. This is to avoid introducing religious references without immediate relevance.
With this established I would further suppose that the more common trade apprenticeship learning available to the greater population will have provided significant foundation to the resilience of human reflex and cognitive evolution but will have fallen short of significantly developing the higher coordination centre of the right rear of the brain. Even those in more elite arenas will not have contributed significantly here until the development of greater fora for debate than inter-familial council. For this reason the sparsity of record of the passing on of significant knowledge while early cultures developed is only inevitable.
With the introduction of the internet the nearly globally available public education system that has developed has a fora that allows a broad debate and subsequently a far shorter time period before for any individual seeking greater familiarity with subjects of investigation to provide themselves a functional comprehension of their areas of interest. In effect the public has been provided a supra-supervisory extension to their right rear brain function. This is obviously of great value to any individual with the appropriate learning motivation and subsequently the community in general. The web provides a minimisation of isolation and maximisation of accurate record and information that conclusively seals the fate of “the old world”, provided some barely conceivable intervention can reverse the snowball of progress. If you can’t deal with +IQ’d smart-arses within the next 5 years or so I’m guessing you’ll be getting pretty grumpy with the competition.
So where does that leave this thread?
Although I expect the current education systems to develop with progress there is also the recent re-emergence of home schooling. With the development of IT and digital communication this will become it’s own force in the education system and inevitably will have a significant effect on work-forces and politics. In this manner the dreams of visionary’s of democracy will have been realised in a manner that minimises elitist facilities that have previously been a burden to progress rather than a boon.
The current educational facilities provide a degree of oversight with student talent assessment records. The culture of the community will develop around education and the assessment of pupils is the pivotal philosophy that should guide the development of the education system. Without appropriate public disclosure of the assessment process the growth of a self-evaluating pro-education culture in the community is limited.
On this note, what is Australia’s current education philosophy forecast and strategy?