Teachers have told us across the country that what's severely outdated is the teacher at the front of the classroom as the font of knowledge, because as we know, access to knowledge and information is now ubiquitous.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.
Interpretation
The traditional role of teachers as the sole source of knowledge is outdated, and they should focus on teaching students to think independently.
Laurene Powell Jobs highlights a shift in education from teachers merely dispensing knowledge to facilitating critical thinking and lifelong learning. In an era where information is easily accessible, the teacher's role is evolving to empower students to analyze and synthesize information, fostering a mindset of curiosity and continuous growth.
In practice
In a workshop for educators on modern teaching techniques.
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.
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Regardless of zip code, talent and IQ are evenly distributed, so we need to make sure that opportunity is evenly distributed, too.
Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed.
Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.
They will not stop me, I will get my education, if it is in home, school or any place
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