Schools that Matter: The Future
· Significantly, this notion of sound schooling dovetails with just the kind of intellectual engagement and nimbleness that national leaders say is most crucial for our children in a world in which innovation will be the key to a secure future, not physical labor or professional licensing.
· All physical labor and technical training is becoming cheaper and cheaper to find as Asians and South Americans and Africans enter the global labor market in immense numbers.
· What will distinguish people in the world of work is the extent to which they will be able to contribute and develop exciting ideas for products and services that other people around the world will want to buy.
· Teaching kids how to discover and develop whatever innate abilities they may have to the fullest, rather than molding them prematurely at an early age for work that is not part of the American culture or character, is what schools that matter will be all about. And the key to making these kinds of schools excellent will be gathering together a faculty that is itself intellectually and emotionally nimble, serving a community that understands and supports schooling suited to a world that is more dynamic and open-ended than the black and white world of the Cold-War in which our current educational system developed. The acquisition of critical skills needs to occur within this larger context to be meaningful and successful.
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Excellent schools of the future sound an awful lot like schools of the past! I am reminded by some of John Dewey's theories on education.
What are some simple steps that can deliver this kind of school to the students in Rye?
One of the simplest first steps would be to eliminate all unnecessary standardized testing and return the sense of accountability towards the students - how is the child learning? Revisit the activity of testing as a tool rather than an abstract, would yield a deeper connection between teacher and student as well as cost nothing.
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