Reblogged from The 21st Century Principal
“The core purpose of education is to prepare young people for life after school; helping them to build up the mental, emotional, social, and strategic resources to enjoy challenge and cope well with uncertainty and complexity.” Ken Robinson,Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Every time I hear education reform rhetoric calling for education reforms that “Prepare students for jobs of the 21st century,” or reforms that “prepare them for jobs that don’t exist yet,” I can’t help but ask: “What the heck does that look like? How can we prepare students for something we don’t even know will come to pass?” These are really shortsighted and, if I may say, stupid ideas.