Diving into the Wreckage: Our Schools and the Future Society
Multiple Choice Question: A typical American classroom has as much to offer an inquiring mind as does:
A) a vacant lot B) a country road C) a street corner D) the city dump E) the custodian’s closet F) none of the above
Analogy Test: High-stakes, standardized testing is to learning as:
A) memorizing a flight manual is to flying B) watching an episode of Hawaii Five-O is to doing police work C) exchanging marriage vows is to a successful relationship D) reading Gray’s Anatomy is to practicing surgery E) singing the national anthem is to citizenship F) all of the above
Education is a perennial arena of struggle as well as hope: struggle because it stirs in us the need to look at the world anew, to question what we have created, and to wonder once again what’s worthwhile for human beings to know and experience; and hope because it gestures toward a possible future, toward the impending, toward the
