A life of tests is no preparation for the tests of life | Aeon Essays
If character is not taught, how can it possibly be learned? The affluent world in which so many young citizens exist today doesn’t easily create the ability to build character. Often character requires failure; it requires adversity; it requires contemplation; it requires determination and steadfastness; it requires finding one’s own space as an in
... See moreJohn C. Bogle • Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
An education must prepare a student to ask and explore questions in contexts that do not yet exist. That is, we need individuals capable of tackling problems they have never encountered and to ask questions no one has yet thought of.
Dana Ernst
Our bar should focus primarily on effort and improvement, not performance. Kids’ capacities differ, and they change across time and across subjects. If you keep the effort bar high then good school choices make themselves reasonably clear. For one student that might be Princeton, and for another it might be a community college. Both of these option
... See moreMadeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well
Thriving takes both labor and leisure. It takes curiosity. An education system that segregates labor and leisure and that removes curiosity from our essential needs drives and sustains inequity and must be challenged.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We need to re-think our traditional view of what it means to gain an education. Education is no longer just something you acquire in early life. The pace of change causes old skills to become obsolete more quickly than ever before. We now need to think of education as a dynamic, life-long process of continually cultivating Intellectual Capital. •Ir
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