Wrong Jungle??
Welcome to the first post of Future Education. I'm looking forward to a lively, spirited, sometimes controversial discussion on education. Where are our schools taking our children? Steven Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People has a great analogy. Imagine being in charge of clearing out a jungle to build a road. You've got your crew up and moving. They're swinging their axes and machetes. Their bringing their trucks through. They're getting things done.
You grab your climbing equipment and scale the tallest tree to check on how things are going. You grab your binoculars, survey the landscape, look a second time, then call down:
"WE'RE IN THE WRONG JUNGLE!"
Your trusty foreman, who has guided all the work you've done all this time, yells back up:
"SHUT UP...WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS!"
Sometimes it seems as if we're getting very good at helping our children go in the wrong direction. We push kids into college, only to find that half of them don't graduate.
What would happen if half of the students didn't graduate from a high school? We'd close it down, or at least avoid it, if possible.
We push kids to achieve on performance - based tests to prove they're learning. So what happens when your child comes home crying because she had to do writing prompts all day?
These are the kinds of issues that Future Education is here to discuss. All opinions are valued and respected, if not necessarily agreed with. If you're a parent, we want to hear from you. If you're a student, educator, policy maker, employer or concerned citizen, we want to hear from you as well.
Again, welcome to Future Education!
- Larry
P.S. Check out my book collection at www.TheGuidanceGuy.com
You grab your climbing equipment and scale the tallest tree to check on how things are going. You grab your binoculars, survey the landscape, look a second time, then call down:
"WE'RE IN THE WRONG JUNGLE!"
Your trusty foreman, who has guided all the work you've done all this time, yells back up:
"SHUT UP...WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS!"
Sometimes it seems as if we're getting very good at helping our children go in the wrong direction. We push kids into college, only to find that half of them don't graduate.
What would happen if half of the students didn't graduate from a high school? We'd close it down, or at least avoid it, if possible.
We push kids to achieve on performance - based tests to prove they're learning. So what happens when your child comes home crying because she had to do writing prompts all day?
These are the kinds of issues that Future Education is here to discuss. All opinions are valued and respected, if not necessarily agreed with. If you're a parent, we want to hear from you. If you're a student, educator, policy maker, employer or concerned citizen, we want to hear from you as well.
Again, welcome to Future Education!
- Larry
P.S. Check out my book collection at www.TheGuidanceGuy.com
posted by Larry Hochman at 7:41 PM
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