There is growing evidence that our brightest students don’t remember the most basic things they have studied, and that they are disconnected from the most general current events. When these ideas emerge, many people complain that schools, students, and parents aren’t doing their jobs.
What if they are doing their jobs?
The world is changing rapidly – politically, socially, technologically – and progress requires us to pursue critical thinking, and to resist authority.
Workforce development is a big buzzword in education. We should, business and government leaders insist, invest education dollars in training workers for the marketplace, so that they may grow our economy, our nation, and our way of life. Oh, and also grow their pocketbooks. It’s no coincidence that many proponents of workforce development are executives. … [Read more…]
“Greater love hath no man than this…” Teachers are heroes. They dedicate and even give their lives for their students. So why don’t we trust them more?
In the past when we were living on the edge, sabotaging children was the only prudent course of action.
Perhaps there is a good reason that fathers tell bad dad jokes…
A couple of the best teachers I ever had were not very good teachers. Let me explain. The first was a high school math teacher that I had for two years. One of my best friends was in her classes with me, let’s say his name was Picard. She would hand back our exams and … [Read more…]
Our concepts of excellence in education, in intelligence, and in personal performance, are all designed around standardized test, even in the most rigorous curricula. Which is not a very good idea.
Design your criminal: should incarceration generate criminal rehabilitation, or dehabilitation? What does justice mean if it doesn’t make us safer?
Every child starts with a natural curiosity, but educational abuse destroys it. What if we re-designed education to preserve that curiosity above all else?