response to Hacking Education by Fred Wilson
"I want to help take all of them down and build something better in its place. I am not a fan of home schooling, but I understand it's appeal. I do not think I can teach my kids better than others. But I do think my kids and my wife and I need more choice of who educates them."
You're putting homeschooling in a kind of funny box here. I have no intention of putting my children through one day of compulsory education, but that has nothing to do with a desire to teach them myself, or the any sort of belief that I (or my spouse) would make a better teacher.
I think you see where the desire comes from--escaping a broken system--but you're not giving credit to the options that become available when you take back the 8 hours x 200 days x 12 years that traditional education requires of children in this country. It's so much bigger than MIT OpenCourseware and Wikipedia. Those things are great resources, but whether we have them or not, the system is still broken, backwards, and inhumane.
I personally am most inspired by authors like John Taylor Gatto and John Holt, who would probably argue that what we need is not an improved, expanded, or reformed education system, but less or no education at all. The first chapter of Holt's Instead of Education lays it out pretty well (link to books.Google page): "My concern is not to improve 'education' but to do away with it, to end the ugly and antihuman business of people-shaping and let people shape themselves."
The important effect that the information tools you bring up have on education is that they remove the need for it. Learning is not education, and education is not required for learning. People will realize that the institutions are not necessary. This is so much bigger than reform.