Summary
Expanding education
A three-part method can make education more accessible and more useful to all students by drawing on and reinforcing their natural learning techniques. Educators should teach to all the senses, and recognize that reading and writing apply to all media, not just the written word.See the full content of this document
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Needed: a new literacy.
What is a school? It's a place where we blind-fold the young, plug their ears, and encapsulate in heavy plastic. Then we're perplexed when they behave like strangers in a strange and hostile world.
This problem, deeply rooted in the society as a whole, will not be resolved by resurrecting the educational goals and standards of the recent past, which themselves reenforce rather than solve the problem. We must look elsewhere, even to ancient roots, for guidance. Here are three propositions that, if carried out, will provide an education in depth and breadth, drawing out students' inborn capacities to perceive keenly, reason critically, and grow increasingly more aware and respectful of self and others, and helping them to explore the world around them, to investigate in a rich and meaningful way their own and other societies and ages, and to become familiar with rich facets of their own personalities. Proposition I: Open wide the doors and let the senses into the classroom Am I serious? In an age of instant gratification, where the jock reigns supreme, welcome the senses into the c...See the full content of this document
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