These are the kinds of curious, mysterious, and original minds that often end up making major contributions to our world; to reach their full potential, however, they need the latitude to follow their own oblique, nonstandard paths. That latitude is seldom found in a conventional, box-shaped classroom in which everyone is supposed to be doing the e... See more

Je pense qu’un système éducatif qui évalue les enfants essentiellement sur leurs réponses aux questions d’hier passe à côté de quelque chose, surtout quand les réponses aux questions d’hier sont dans les machines. Hier, cela pouvait servir de connaître les réponses aux questions d’hier, parce que le monde d’avant-hier et le monde d’hier se ressembl

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isn’t that, more or less, what we should be aiming for? The cultivation of students who care about what’s going on in the world and are willing to take a stand for it? Students who understand their own power, their own interest, and their own responsibility in shaping the world? Schools that discuss, debate and act on ideas the students care about?

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We live in an era where a motivated 12-year-old can learn the basics of timber framing, semiconductor design, or how to bake bread that would rival world-class bakeries. They can master nearly any mechanical system or any number of programming or artistic vocations, even if no mentor lives nearby. The limit is no longer some teacher or institution

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