Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school - 17 views
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Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11Read this article and leave a sticky note comment on anything that resonates with you. You can also highlight any words that particularly strike a chord with you. -
Chris Betcher on 16 Sep 11I like the title.
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aleafinjapan on 17 Sep 11I like Seth Godin!
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Back to (the wrong) school
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standardized testing
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Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?
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The bottom is not a good place to be, even if you're capable of getting there.
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Large-scale education was never about teaching kids or creating scholars. It was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system.
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It makes me crazy that Seth Godin does not permit people to comment on his blog posts. -
Ya, what's with that? I'm surprised he's not more open considering his purple cow worldview. -
His line is that he knows himself well enough to know that he'll get "into it" with commenters... and that he doesn't want to spend his life energy in conflict with the haters. I get that... but there's no opportunity for conversation at its source.
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Interesting question. Certainly the nature of the POSSIBILITIES of what we do has changed. My mother was a teacher and I don't feel that she had the same opportunities to shift what she did the same way that I can.
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
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Every year, we churn out millions of of workers who are trained to do 1925 labor.
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A new generation, not by birth but by education. An octogenarian can equally become a part of the new generation depending on their commitment to learning new skills.
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Sure, there was some moral outrage at seven-year olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners
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Links to my Child Labor (gr 8) assignment. Interesting way to start a class (Compare and Contrast)
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If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it.
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s we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here's the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers? -
How does this relate to national, as well as international schools? So many discussions on Twitter that I've followed seem to come from educators at U.S. state schools who are struggling with the restrictions imposed by law and policy makers, which seem intent on crushing creativity and connections within - and between - schools.
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Our current system of teaching kids to sit in straight rows and obey instructions isn't a coincidence--it was an investment in our economic future. The plan: trade short-term child labor wages for longer-term productivity by giving kids a head start in doing what they're told.
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igning chairs and answering the phone) and non-tradable jobs (like mowing the lawn or cooking burger
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Some argue we ought to become the cheaper, easier country for sourcing cheap, compliant workers who do what they're told.
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Consider Pink's assertion that our society will become a "thinking economy" where jobs will reflect emphasis on leadership skills. Are we there yet?
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disconnect
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post-industrial revolution
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This revolution just simply changes how people understands the world and changes how people react to each other. New kinds of training is needed more and more.
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