Imagine if the 'school' of today became the 'knowledge cafe' or 'knowledge community' of tomorrow?

I have just been doing some searching using the Technorati search engine. I started off with "Gurteen" as given my name is rather unusual it normally makes a unique key to search on - but not this time - seems Marilyn Manson got wed at Gurteen Castle in Ireland and the whole world seems to have blogged about it - rather swamping me out :-)

So I tried knowledge cafe and came up with some interesting hits including one from Christian Long. Here is how Christian concludes his posting.

Imagine if the 'school' of today became the 'knowledge cafe' or 'knowledge community' of tomorrow?

I have often thought this. I'd love to see the knowledge cafe concept more widely applied - especially in schools. Anyone like to talk to me about it?