Does education at its best have all students study the same things, so they can be tested and compared, and so when they transfer from one school to another, they will not be behind in the what is being taught?
Somehow, I wonder if it isn't more important to deliver students who specializes in the topics most interesting them, and who learns about the things they are most interested in, not the things a uniform textbook restricts them to.
Do we raise children just so they can be measured? Do we raise them just so they can be compared? Rather, I think, it is wiser to raise them to chase their dreams. If they are learning just the things everyone else is learning, they aren't being loosed to learn more than their classmates. No one dreams of being average, they dream of going beyond the norm.
I'm not sitting in the classes, nor do I have children in them, to know how much is standardized and how much elbow room is left for learning things the other students are not learning. But, I do believe in individualism. I do think it sparks more creativity and more motivation when a child is allowed to pick and choose some of what he or she learns.
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