Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
Interpretation
Talent and intelligence are found across all demographics, but access to opportunities is not equally available.
Laurene Powell Jobs emphasizes the importance of providing equal opportunities to individuals regardless of their socio-economic background. She suggests that talent and intelligence are not confined to specific areas or groups, and thus it is crucial to ensure that everyone has a fair chance to succeed, which in turn can lead to a more equitable society.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech about educational reform.
It's not that our high school system was not designed well, but that it was designed in 1906 when the country was just out of the industrial era. There hasn't been a substantial systemic change the way we do high school since then.
As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.
There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering.
Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous. So instead, teachers want to help students learn how to think so that they can be lifelong learners.
Since I was old enough to understand what a songwriter/producer is, I've had a curiosity about how Max Martin creates what he creates. I wanted to see that happen. I wanted to be there. I wanted to learn from him.
The game of life is the game of everlasting learning. At least it is if you want to win.
It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its power and possibility. Instead of pouring knowledge into people's heads, you need to help them grind anew set of eyeglasses so they can see the world in a new way.
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.
He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.
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