Economist Tyler Cowan imagines a scenario in which an employer could do a complete reset of the organization and staffing of a company.
Imagine an (admittedly impossible) thought experiment where all of the capital and labor resources are temporarily released and employers can rebuild their firms from scratch, recontracting for new wages, new personnel pools, new implicit promises to workers, new capital investments, new market positionings, and so on.
He wants to know how much income inequality would change (up or down) after the #TheGreatReset. I want to apply this to organized schooling. What would happen to learning under a similar “reset”?
Is it any wonder that reform has been so infernally incremental? We are all-averse to this type of reset. And if you aren’t averse to this type of change, then you are saddled with the burden of proving that your reform is way better (not just marginally better) than the piecemeal approach to change we are living under. Given this and short of some external tectonic shift imposed involuntarily (not evolved), nothing will change nor should we expect it to.
So what do we do? We can abandon the system and bravely embrace another–like an entrepreneur creating his or her own business. We can quit learning altogether (something half or more K-12 teachers do within five years of entering the system). We can build a system within a system, but any of us who have tried this knows that the risk to the integrity of one’s own psyche and health and family is profound. We can wait for leadership from within or without to take up the brave task. Or we can build a new learning organization based on the best instincts, stories, and research we have to begin anew.
Of course, I could and probably am missing the black swan out there waiting to break into the clear–staid and calm on the surface and paddling like mad underneath. 
Where shall we go? I am guilty of arguing that my way should be everybody’s way. I chose unschooling with my kids, I chose unlearning with my career path before I became a teacher (farm and business). I have chosen autodidactics every day of my life and, of late, have added collaborative didactics (MOOCs and internships and professional service) as a path. I think that the new way is decentralized and distributed. We are ready to try it. Let the reset begin in our own deep learning core. Let it grow there like a bamboo corm, decentralizing and invasive and scarily stretching out to we know not where.
