What are the everyday implications of envisioning the means of education as themselves the ends of education?
“ The weaker claim and kinder account is that school works for some people and just does not work for others. The stronger claim and more accurate account is that the reason school works for some people is precisely the reason why it does not work for others...”
How could considering these ideas bring a new perspective to education?
Learning is not a scarce resource.
Learning is conveyed (strongly) as a zero sum game currently. Someone else's success is my failure, e.g., curve fitting, teacher attention, limited college enrollment. Is learning actually a limited resource? What would a school look like that rejected that?
Learning or skills cannot be measured, except in an arbitrary context.
Any chosen context will necessarily exclude someone else's measure of skill or learning arbitrarily (there is no ‘true’ context).
Inquiry is not just asking ‘Known Information Questions’
Can teachers ask questions in the classroom that they themselves don't know the answer to? If that is not happening, is inquiry happening? Is learning taking place?
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