“A thing cannot be weighed in a scale
scale incapable
of containing it.” –Thomas B. Aldrich
This
quote is weighing heavily on my mind; is my mind able to contain it? Human
potential cannot be accurately predicted by even the most ‘advanced’ techniques.
Intelligence is not finite or stationary; this moment’s assessment is valid
only for this moment.
I have
summarized some comments from Sir Ken Robinson; I agree with his sentiments;
“We must change the metaphor of education. Eliminate the manufacturing or
industrial or factory model that promotes linearity/conforming/batching of
people. We must change to an agricultural model. Human flourishing is not a
mechanical process; it is organic. “You cannot predict the outcome of human
development, all you can do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under
which they will begin to flourish.” Reform and transform education by
customizing it to your circumstances. Personalize education to the people you
are actually teaching, create a movement in education in which people develop
their own solutions with external help based on a personalized curriculum.”
I read
the latest educational research and attend the conferences and hear the rhetoric
and statistics supporting the move away from the industrial model but, after
more than three decades as an educator, I have seen miniscule movement in the
right direction that actually reaches the children. Why? When we know the
truth, why won’t we let it set us free?
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