ABSTRACT
This chapter follows up the discussion in the previous chapter about how hard it will be for schools to change. This leads to a suggestion that out-of-school activities should be an important part of the learning opportunities each child has for mastering the eight competences. Partly, this is because a new venture outside of school is much easier to mount successfully than a change inside school where current curricular goals (the academic subjects) control the school day. Especially important also is the notion of redundancy, that one way to assure that every child has a real chance to master the eight competences is to provide redundant learning opportunities that are not all part of one “efficient” design. A standard model of medical and other errors is used to frame the argument for redundancy.
