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Exactly. When I follow these thoughts to their logical conclusion, I always reach the Sudbury model: let the kids figure out what they want to do and learn. Hu
by jostylr 12y ago
Exactly.
When I follow these thoughts to their logical conclusion, I always reach the Sudbury model: let the kids figure out what they want to do and learn. Humans (and kids are human) are smart and savvy. Give them a system and they will learn to navigate it to their advantage.
But give them no system, let them find their own way, and they can achieve anything.
Teachers can see the symptoms that the system is letting down the students. But it is extremely hard for them to accept that it is the whole structure that is problematic requiring a massive redesign.
- army 12y agoThat completely ignores the fact that people don't know what they don't know, or tend to erroneously assume that something they don't know about isn't relevant.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 12y agoThere should be some allowance for self-direction, but humans are only "smart and savvy" over a period of several hundred generations and not any specific individual. By the time a kid figures out that he should have learned something, he'll have great-grandchildren (assuming he's still alive at all).