Thursday, April 26, 2012

Good Education? How do We Count the Ways?

What is the heart of a good education. By what shall we measure it?

Is it the accumulation of facts? Is a good education measured by how many tidbits of information  the student memorizes?

Or is a good education one that prepares a person for a job? No more, no less.

Wouldn't a good education be one that trains the mind to think, one that creates artists and scientists and inventors?

Or is the most important thing life skills? how to do your taxes, what a mortgage is all about, how to dance, and so forth.

It could even be suggested a good education is one that creates a good person, a good member of society, someone who stays out of jail, treats his neighbor right, and goes to work each day.

America is reflecting on its fall from the pinnacle of education, concerned that we are no longer considered the world's best-educated people. I would suggest, as we reflect on where we've been and where we're going, we not measure our success in just one of the above ways.

But in all of them.

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