Myth as identity

John C. gets philisophical for a Monday night with his take on whether myths help us reinforce the way we like to think of our education systems, and is looking for some international perspectives. For my tuppence worth, I need to be thinking about this for my talk at Building Learning Communities next year in Boston. I'll be explaining why Scotland has been blogging for 5 million years (that should be good fun  - book soon ;-), but this will no doubt be reinforcing many of the myths that John mentions in his post. I'm really interested to see whether these myths still apply to 21st century education - if they are good myths then they should, surely. If you leave a comment over on John's blog, I'll try to tap into these, too, for my talk next year. Who knows, I might be talking about your blog in July!