Do you Wonder if our education still make sense? Is the most efficient way to learn? How the information access speed is changing it? Like Seton Hill which is giving a Macbook+iPad to every student. Have a look to Khan Academy? 1000+ provided by one man with one slogan: "The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere." Here's a quote of Seth Godin from his article "What Is School For?"
So, a starter list. The purpose of school is to:
- Become an informed citizen
- Be able to read for pleasure
- Be trained in the rudimentary skills necessary for employment
- Do well on standardized tests
- Homogenize society, at least a bit
- Pasteurize out the dangerous ideas
- Give kids something to do while parents work
- Teach future citizens how to conform
- Teach future consumers how to desire
- Build a social fabric
- Create leaders who help us compete on a world stage
- Generate future scientists who will advance medicine and technology
- Learn for the sake of learning
- Help people become interesting and productive
- Defang the proletariat
- Establish a floor below which a typical person is unlikely to fall
- Find and celebrate prodigies, geniuses and the gifted
- Make sure kids learn to exercise, eat right and avoid common health problems
- Teach future citizens to obey authority
- Teach future employees to do the same
- Increase appreciation for art and culture
- Teach creativity and problem solving
- Minimize public spelling mistakes
- Increase emotional intelligence
- Decrease crime by teaching civics and ethics
- Increase understanding of a life well lived
- Make sure the sports teams have enough players
Also watch Ken Robinson on "how school can kill creativity".
PS: Don't get me wrong, I like my education based on entrepreneurship but we can always aim at better right?
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