I recently received a link to a blog post by Roy Bahat who heads Bloomberg Beta. Entitled "Why some people are great at school, but only so-so at life," Bahat argues that school requires students to learn behaviors that are, if anything, antithetical to success in life, and calls on students to choose, instead, to learn behaviors that will make them successful in life.
While I don't agree with all of his statements, I wonder whether he is at least partially correct.
Here is the specific list of things that he mentions:
School asks you to… Life is best when you can…
Get 100% correct Act first, correct later
Get the best result with no risk Learn to risk
Complete everything Focus; pick the One Thing while ignoring pleas for your attention
Accept all you are told; work the system Challenge and invent; understand the system and choose whether to work within or around
See yourself as one of many Be one of one
Put mind and body before heart See heart, mind and body as one
Please authority; obey Be authority
You can see this at [
medium.com]
Do you agree with his assessment of school?
What can we do to make sure that our students' experiences in school prepare to succeed in the real world and not just in the artificial world of school?
EF
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/2016 12:30PM by mlb.
