ABSTRACT
The formalization of schooling throughout the world grew out of a notion that individual and national wealth came from industrialization. There are valiant attempts to attribute a portion of production value in some industries to knowledge, but it is clear that the true value of knowledge is almost impossible to measure. All the global systems are complex systems, the world economy, transportation systems, terrorist networks, disease spread, Twitter, climate change and social movements. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a Paris-based organization that sets the numerical standards by which the world's wealthiest countries count their production and other national statistics. Increasingly, students can work at distances, but people are so used to thinking of education as a classroom activity that it is hard to imagine. A kind of education or collective knowledge-building has taken place, an understanding, shared by many, that results in collective action.
