tagged by sandboxdiva

the rules:
1. Grab the nearest book. Beat it against the desk until it submits.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don’t you dare dig for that “cool” or “intellectual” book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag five people

“As the information age made authoritarian regimes and their associated command economics untenable, so the advent of knowledge-based societies will make command education obsolete as well.  We simply will not be able to carry out our most important task – education – without effecting in it, too, an equivalent democratic shift: making students into partners.
Introducing market forces and participatory democracy into education is an even more daunting challenge than converting communist autocracies to free market democracies.  At least the communist world had the United States and Western Europe to look to as models, albeit imperfect ones.”
– Somebodies and Nobodies, Robert W. Fuller

Free book from Bookcrossing, still haven’t read it yet.  Gill skimmed it and proclaimed it crap, so it’s towards the bottom of my pile.