A good friend of mine posted this recent Washington Post article to her Facebook page. The article, titled Our Superficial Scholars, reflects on the changes in applicants for the Rhodes Scholar program over the years. The author makes the point that even our very best students today are not taught to think "outside the box," or broadly and creatively about critical issues in the world today. The article seems to connect with our discussion about The Race to Nowhere. Have we become so focused on mastering volumes of content that we're neglecting the ability to think critically and creatively about significant issues?
After reading the Washington Post article, I hopped over to my RSS feed to read some of the blogs that I follow regularly, and came upon this blog post written by educator Will Richardson: The New Story.
Richardson's premise is that education is about to fundamentally change - that there will be many avenues to the goal of education, not all of them in what we have traditionally known as "school."
More food for thought!
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