• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

-John Taylor Gatto

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• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will

John Taylor Gatto

• As Society Rapidly Changes, Individuals Will Have To Be Able To Function Comfortably In A World That Is Always In Flux. Knowledge Will Continue To Increase At A Dizzying Rate. This Means That A Content-based Curriculum, With A Set Body Of Information To Be Imparted To Students, Is Entirely Inappropriate As A Means Of Preparing Children For Their Adult Roles.

Topic

Children

Mean

Adults

It Was Never Factually True That Young People Learn To Read Or Do Arithmetic Primarily By Being Taught These Things. These Things Are Learned, But Not Really Taught At All. Over-teaching Interferes With Learning, Although The Few Who Survive It May Well Come To Imagine It Was By An Act Of Teaching.

Teaching

Learning

People