WELCOME to all new members—I have a question for you! Are you interested in viewing Most Likely to Succeed in it’s entirety? Do you have a school or district group who would be interested as well?
I’m reading Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith’s book, Most Likely to Succeed, and it is filled with provocative insights that beg for deeper thinking. I will be posting some quotes from the book and I invite you to join the discussion. Quote for today: “We’re a hypercompetitive society that loves rankings and numbers. We have inherited an education system designed by business and education leaders, well over a century ago, to train workers for manufacturing jobs. We have been conditioned to think an education that involves memorizing Coulomb’s law and conjugating Latin verbs is superior to one that focuses on understanding the home electrical system or learning to love reading through Harry Potter books. And we place more importance on the college sweatshirts people wear than what they’ve accomplished with their own sweat and tears.” Is this an accurate description of America’s education DNA? What about the DNA of your school/system?