Children will leave school without any enthusiasm for life if we only focus on the basics, says one principal who overhauled his public school
Here’s a question: what is education for? Is it for equipping young people narrowly for a career? Or is it for equipping them for life? I believe that if education has an enemy, it is narrowness, which leads inexorably to another enemy: boredom.
What is killing our schools is the belief that we should concentrate on the basics and pretty much the basics only. If this thinking continues, our schools are in danger of being turned into factories to churn out rudimentary skills like literacy and numeracy without giving enough emphasis to more creative, higher-end knowledge and personal capabilities. Of course, the basics are important. They are the concrete foundation upon which all else is to be built. But without something more, they can be soul-destroying – for teachers as well as students.
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