“If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.”
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What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
