Jeff Jarvis agrees with teacher Mark Pullen’s opin­ion that the edu­ca­tion sys­tem should be mod­i­fied to pro­duce port­fo­lios instead of, or in addi­tion to, qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

Per­haps we need to sep­a­rate youth from edu­ca­tion. Edu­ca­tion lasts for­ever. […] What if we told stu­dents that, like Google engi­neers, they should take one day a week or one course a term or one year in col­lege to cre­ate some­thing: a com­pany, a book, a song, a sculp­ture, an inven­tion? School could act as an incu­ba­tor, advis­ing, push­ing, and nur­tur­ing their ideas and effort. What would come of it? Great things and mediocre things. But it would force stu­dents to take greater respon­si­bil­ity for what they do and to break out of the strait­jacket of uni­for­mity. It would make them ask ques­tions before they are told answers. It could reveal to them their own tal­ents and needs. The skep­tic will say that not every stu­dent is respon­si­ble enough or a self-starter. Per­haps. But how will we know stu­dents’ capa­bil­i­ties unless we put them in the posi­tion to try? And why struc­ture edu­ca­tion for every­one around the low­est denom­i­na­tor of the few?