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27 Feb 11
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The government told us.
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Education is about:
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- Covering all the standards
- Improving performance on government tests
- Meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)
- Producing a competitive workforce
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- What will their future hold? What will they need to know?
- What are appropriate method, materials, environment, activity?
- Who are these children? What is their frame of reference?
“The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future.”There are some implied, but essential questions in that answer:
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15 Feb 11
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01 Feb 11
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- Covering all the standards
- Improving performance on government tests
- Meeting AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress)
- Producing a competitive workforce
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The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future
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The purpose of education is to make the world a better place!
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It’s what you know that’s different
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education? It is a life-long process of recognizing one’s gifts and talents, of putting those gifts and talents to good use in service of the greater good. Education leads a person to find their place in society with all the attending rights and responsibilities of adulthood.
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“Religion, morality, and knowledge” are “necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.” O
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teach children to think.
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it isn’t what you know that’s the same as everyone else that brings success to an endeavor. It’s what you know that’s different, how you think and solve problems that is different, your ability to bring a new set of knowledge and experience to the task that brings value.”
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education has liberating; that is it freed a person from ignorance, for the pursuit of human excellence
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Are we asking what is the purpose of education, or what is the purpose of schools?
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s teaching a student how to learn, and how to process and apply that which is learned.
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become cleverer then before
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problem solving
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24 Jan 11
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04 Jan 11
How much is this just like what we are doing to our children. They move down the assembly line, where we install math on them, and install reading, and science, and then we measure their learning at the end of the year, to make sure they all meet the standards, that they all know the same things.
Of course, this makes perfect sense in an industrial age, where you need workers who know the same things, think the same way, working in unison.
In a conceptual age, however, it isn’t what you know that’s the same as everyone else that brings success to an endeavor. It’s what you know that’s different, how you think and solve problems that is different, your ability to bring a new set of knowledge and experience to the task that brings value.
Why do we continue to treat our children like cogs. -
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06 Nov 09
Peggy George"There are some implied, but essential questions in that answer:
* What will their future hold? What will they need to know?
* What are appropriate method, materials, environment, activity?
* Who are these children? What is their frame of reference?
Today, I have a new answer. My old one is still good. I’ll continue to use it. But if you ask me, “What is the purpose of education?” today, I’ll say,
The purpose of education is to make the world a better place!“" -
03 Sep 09
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02 Feb 09
Ms. Rowley2 Cents blog: David Warlick , January 19, 2009. Discussion of the true purpose of education. Moving beyone standardized testing to an unstandard future.
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20 Jan 09
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19 Jan 09
Jeff Utecht“The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future.”
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