In this document from 1991, the proponents of “OBE” or Outcome Based Education, describe how difficult it sometimes is to transform a school into a “community of learners” and a vehicle for social change.

It describes in full how retraining school officials to become “agents of change for social justice” is often radical, messy, and protested as being in defiance of logic about what has worked in the past.

These agents provocateur of transformational change care not about academics, only a political agenda, to which those who object soon find themselves on the outs.

Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic