The right to an education or the right to learn?

Will Richardson writes in the Huffington Post,

Have we reached the limits of our traditional school system's capacity to deal with the diversity of learners that come into our schools today?

We need to shift our thinking from a goal that focuses on the delivery of something -- a primary education -- to a goal that is about empowering our young people to leverage their innate and natural curiosity to learn whatever and whenever they need to. The goal is about eliminating obstacles to the exercise of this right -- whether the obstacle is the structure and scheduling of the school day, the narrow divisions of subject, the arbitrary separation of learners by age, or others -- rather than supplying or rearranging resources. The shift is extremely powerful...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-richardson/have-schools-reached-limits_b_853848.html