Should schools prepare students to lead the pack or be a pack leader?
"If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." ~ Atticus Finch
Many education reformers are determined to test, rate, and sort children to identify and reward those students who lead the pack rather than nurture, respect, and support all learners to cultivate future pack leaders.
This misguided obsession on continually evaluating and comparing student performance using a narrow set of numeracy and literacy skills will leave our children unprepared for the social and emotional challenges and “tests” of adulthood and employment.
"Imagine two wolf packs, or two human tribes,” Mr. McIntyre said. “Which is more likely to survive and reproduce? The one whose members are more cooperative, more sharing, less violent with one another; or the group whose members are beating each other up and competing with one another?”…
This does not mean that alpha males are not tough when they need to be. One Should schools prepare students to lead the pack or be a pack leader? | Johnathan Chase | LinkedIn:
