Seth Godin’s TED talk Stop Killing Dreams questions what school is for. We are not asking or answering that questions and we don’t always agree on how we got here and where we are going. When school were first established school was about teaching obedience. Something that hasn’t changed is that teachers begin class with a morning greeting, and teach students are taught to be obedient and respond with a proper response. Students are taught to hold back because they learn that teachers will always ask for more. We are products of the industrial age we train students to produce and comply. Education was designed to make students interchangeable. The intent of public education was to train people to comply and to prepare them to work in factories. The key distinctinction if its work we try to figure out how to do less if it’s art we try to figure out how to do more. We should not be surprised that students want to know what will be on the test. When it’s a job of course they try to figure out how to do less. Art is valuable but we teach students not to do that. There are many factors changing education. Technology is changing the way students access lectures, good quality lectures are available any time from everywhere online. The value of memorizing is worthless school will be using open book all the time. Access to courses on line changes the need for public education. Measuring experience instead of test scores. Cooperation instead of individualized courses. We are paying extra to attend prestigious colleges, that will change. Performance at school does not lead to happiness and success. We are asking kids to collect dots or connect dots. Grades are an illusion, failure and persistence in priceless. Standing out takes guts we need to teach kids to. The questions teachers should be asking is how are things going to help in getting what school is for. Godin, Seth [TEDxYouth@BFS]. (2012, October 16). "STOP STEALING DREAMS: On the future of education & what we can do about it." Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpbONjV1Jc&index=10&list=PLbRLdW37G3oMquOaC-HeUIt6CWk-FzaG
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