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More than anything else within the scope of human influence
the future of our families, communities, cultures,
economies, and nations depends on our children's
learning. |
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The
world will become what our children learn it to be.
The most precious resource
on earth is our children's capacities for learning.
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divinely endowed or evolutionarily differentiated, it is
our capacity for learning that most distinguishes us from
all other forms of life. |
All
that we will ever 'know' about who
we are, what we are, why we are, how to do things and how to change
things, we will have
learned.
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Socially, emotionally, cognitively, academically, intellectually
and in virtually every other way, our
children become who they learn to become.
How
well children grow through the traumas, challenges, and disadvantages
they experience depends
on how well
they learn. How well they rise to
the opportunities and advantages they experience depends on how well
they learn. From their emotional health and maturity to their
mental health and wisdom, their innermost growth and outermost
achievement depends on how well they learn.
It
not just
what they learn or how they learn, our children's futures
depends on how generally well they learn - on the health
of their learning.
We
need a reframe of the meaning of the word learning.
Learning is not
just the 'utility' through which we acquire knowledge, skills
and experience, it's the process through which we extend
ourselves into our lives in every way.
Exactly. I agree
Dr. Mel
Levine,
author:
A Mind at a Time, The Myth of Laziness and Ready or Not, Here
Life Comes
( context)
We must recognize the fundamental, profound, and capital value of 'stewarding
the health of our children’s learning.'
I
agree. I think everything points in that direction.
Dr. James Heckman
2000 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
(context)
Is there
an educational mission that’s more important than
stewarding the health
of our children’s learning?
“No, when put that
way."
-
Dr.
Grover Whitehurst, Director,
Institute
of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. (context)
So then
the fundamental intention of our education system must be to use
knowledge, skills and experience not just as the end, but as the means
through which we're exercising how well someone is able to participate
and become self-extending in learning what they need to learn when they
need to learn it.
Yeah, right.
Precisely.- Dr.
Eric Hanushek,
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford
University
(context)
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