The McEducation of the Negro: Education is acquiring a basic body of knowledge needed to competently vote and play Jeopardy, appreciate music and art, go to college and get a job, communicate and so on.�
I had a professor in college who said that the benefit of going to college was being able to get the jokes at parties.
I've been doing a good deal of reading lately about school change and education reform. The more I read, and the more I experience, the more I feel that we are undereducating vast swathes of humanity in this country in the name of some sort of accountability and progress.
Learning is fuzzy. Different people will learn different things from the same lesson. Accountability is a way to make sure that learning is happening, but fine tuning it to identify what specific learning is happening is near the heart of the problem.
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This emphasis on "stating the objective" for the lesson can so easily translate into "undereducating vast swathes." I agree wholeheartedly that "learning is fuzzy" and will ever be so. Let them keep trying to break it up into bits and bytes. I'm going to try to remain a human being in the classroom.
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