Southwest Airlines' mission statement that people rarely succeed without having fun doing it is referenced. The document then lists 12 ways that school can be rethought such as doing homework during the day and lectures at night, having open book and note policies, accessing any course anywhere, prioritizing experience over test scores, emphasizing cooperation over isolation, transforming the teacher role, and moving to lifelong learning and earlier careers rather than focusing on nearly famous colleges.

37. “People rarely succeed at
anything unless they are
having fun doing it.”
~Southwest Airlines
mission statement

63. Homework during the day,
lectures at night

69. Cooperation instead of
isolation

71. Transformation
of the role of
the teacher

73. Death of the nearly famous
college

74. A dozen ways school can be rethought:
1) Homework during the day, lectures at night
2) Open book, open note, all the time
3) Access to any course, anywhere in the world
4) Precise, focused instruction instead of mass,
generalized instruction
5) The end of multiple-choice exams
6) Experience instead of test scores as a measure of
achievement
7) The end of compliance as an outcome
8) Cooperation instead of isolation
9) Amplification of outlying students, teachers, ideas
10)Transformation of the role of the teacher
11)Lifelong learning, earlier work
12)Death of the nearly famous college