Christopher Chase on Education
The Art of Learning · “Asking kids to meet target on standardized tests is like making them meet a sales quota. Our kids are not commodities.” ~K.L. Nielsen Over the last decades, research in education and learning indicates that the "standardized" model of schooling is based on several faulty assumptions. It assumes that learning can be measured by standardized tests, and that all children will learn at the same rate and in the same manner. This is just not true. The fact that children learn best when something is meaningful, enjoyable and interesting for them is ignored. The importance of learning in groups and from slightly older children is also not considered relevant. As Ken Robinson described in his TED talk “Changing Education Paradigms“ the industrial model of education is a form of social engineering that does not fit with the natural way children actually learn. It does not reward creativity, innovation, independence, compassion, intuition, confidenc...