Every parent (and student for that matter) would be better off if they read this post. Not only are schools failing to teach relevant problem-solving skills, but they are, by focing students to engage in meaningless work, stealing young people's sense of agency and, therefore, chance of creating a life they're excited to wake up for. "Un…
Every parent (and student for that matter) would be better off if they read this post. Not only are schools failing to teach relevant problem-solving skills, but they are, by focing students to engage in meaningless work, stealing young people's sense of agency and, therefore, chance of creating a life they're excited to wake up for. "Unlike the past, where many smart children finished sooner, modern education endlessly ushers them towards an often farther and more abstract future—one so far away and abstract that some children become infected with the opposite of agency. They take on a learned helplessness and downplay that the future is a reality at all." The more years a young person gives to hypothetical work, the harder it will be for that person to create a meaningful life. It seems almost essential today that to live purposefully, one must take charge of his or her education.
Every parent (and student for that matter) would be better off if they read this post. Not only are schools failing to teach relevant problem-solving skills, but they are, by focing students to engage in meaningless work, stealing young people's sense of agency and, therefore, chance of creating a life they're excited to wake up for. "Unlike the past, where many smart children finished sooner, modern education endlessly ushers them towards an often farther and more abstract future—one so far away and abstract that some children become infected with the opposite of agency. They take on a learned helplessness and downplay that the future is a reality at all." The more years a young person gives to hypothetical work, the harder it will be for that person to create a meaningful life. It seems almost essential today that to live purposefully, one must take charge of his or her education.