54. Make something different
[From Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams http://www.squidoo.com/stop-stealing-dreams]
I don’t know how to change school, can’t give you a map or a checklist. What I do know is that we’re asking the wrong questions and making the wrong assumptions.
The best tactic available to every taxpayer and parent and concerned teacher is to relentlessly ask questions, not settling for the status quo.
“Is this class/lecture/program/task/test/policy designed to help our students do the old thing a little more efficiently, or are we opening a new door to enable our students to do something that’s new and different?”
School is doing the best job it knows how to create the output it is being asked to create.
We ought to be asking school to make something different. And the only way to do that is to go about it differently.
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