I hope my wife is not reading ... but, I must admit my infatuation with Lawrence Lessig. He doesn't really speak on education directly, but the ideas impact education substantially. I highly recommend just clicking around this page. This video is particularly compelling. But, I want you do to this for me. Watch this video below from 24:00 to at least 29:00.
This is just one point among many that has caused me to question underlying assumptions about the order of things and, particularly, how technology may change the order of things.