Week 7 (I love learning, I hate school)

First, let me just say that the title of this piece single handedly is the most agreeable thing I’ve read in this class to date. Besides that, I can say I found myself just nodding in agreement with this entire reading. When we look at the world we live in today, some of the most successful people never went to college. They simply excel at a certain skill. They don't have any school debt, and they are living what we interpret is a good life. Then on the other hand, we look at ourselves and realize were in a class about appreciating film while were in school to do something that has nothing to do with film. How could we appreciate school from that view? It’s hard to and that's just the way the world is now.

“This dream of a new model has many facets. In such a vision, our young would be learning life skills and academic (cognitive) skills as motivated by need and desire, building on humans’ natural — and I mean this in a truly evolutionary sense — curiosity and ability to discover patterns. This would happen through some formal, structured ways of learning but also through learning by observation, learning by doing, learning by apprenticeship in both the loose and the strict meanings. There would be many who find opportunities to earn a living by the time they are in their middle to late teens; we would accept the immense capacity of people at all ages. In fact, age would no longer be the defining category of personhood, the strait- jacket that it has been across a century of industrial schooling.” Like the reading speaks on, I think school needs to be a place where you get to solely focus on what you want to do in life based on what you want to learn and what you need to know.