If everything is always high-stakes, you’re going to create an environment conducive to cheating.
- Eric Anderman, on Why Most Students Cheat
Does anyone see the correlation between this learned behavior and the Financial Debacle?
The next century offers fewer new long-lasting institutions (we’re seeing both organized religion and the base of industry fading away), to be replaced instead with micro-organizations, with individual leadership, with the leveraged work of a small innovative team changing things far more than it ever would have in the past. The six foundational elements are taken for granted as we build a new economy and a new world on top of them.
Amplified by the Web and the connection revolution, human beings are no longer rewarded most for work as compliant cogs. Instead, our chaotic world is open to the work of passionate individuals, intent on carving their own paths.
Source: squidoo.com
Large-scale education was not developed to motivate kids or to create scholars. It
was invented to churn out adults who worked well within the system. Scale was
more important than quality, just as it was for most industrialists.
Seth Godin, from his new manifesto on education “Stop Stealing Dreams”
Source: sethgodin.typepad.com
Sometimes I wish I could have gone to a place like this.
