Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?) - Seth Godin
Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?) - Seth Godin
Stop Stealing Dreams (what is school for?) - Seth Godin
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23.And yet we <strong>is</strong>olate students instead of connecting them<br />
Virtually every academic activity in <strong>school</strong> <strong>is</strong> done solo. Homework. Exams.<br />
Writing. The lectures might take place in a crowded room, but they too are<br />
primarily one-way.<br />
How <strong>is</strong> th<strong>is</strong> focus on the <strong>is</strong>olated individual going to match up with <strong>what</strong> actually<br />
happens in every field of endeavor? No competent doctor says, “I don’t know<br />
<strong>what</strong> to do, I’ll figure it out myself.” No academic researcher or steelworker or<br />
pilot works in complete <strong>is</strong>olation.<br />
Group projects are the exception in <strong>school</strong>, but they should be the norm.<br />
Figuring out how to leverage the power of the group—whether it <strong>is</strong> students in<br />
the same room or a quick connection to a graphic designer across the sea in<br />
Wales—<strong>is</strong> at the heart of how we are productive today.<br />
24.If education <strong>is</strong> the question, then teachers are the answer<br />
Walking through the Harlem Village Academy, the first thing most people<br />
notice <strong>is</strong> the no<strong>is</strong>e. There <strong>is</strong>n’t any.<br />
Please understand: it’s not quiet like a morgue or a library. There are the sounds<br />
of engaged students and of motivated teachers, but there’s no chaos. The chaos<br />
we’ve been trained to associate with an inner-city <strong>school</strong> <strong>is</strong> totally m<strong>is</strong>sing.