Twenty-first century educational imperatives

Recommended editorial thought piece:

Twenty-first century educational imperatives

http://jumpleftstepright.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/twenty-first-century-educational-imperatives/

1. “Learning to Think Clearly
2. Learning to Challenge Information
3. Learning to Think Historically, Economically, etc.
4. Numeracy
5. Organization
6. Great Stories

What we don’t need to teach

1. We don’t need to teach job skills. Full stop.
2. Everything we have been teaching are the foundations for working.
3. We don’t need to teach social skills or social behaviour. We get that through the activities undertaken in learning. It doesn’t need a separate program.
4. We don’t need to teach career planning, self and society, or any of the other “be a good citizen” programs forced on our schools today. That, too, comes out of having created critical thinkers who can research for themselves and learn all lifetime long.

How long to be in school?

…and what would it cost?”

Stephen