We should make school a place where kids create because of school not in spite of school!
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"I think the idea of the “standard child” or the “baseline child” or test score ranges...that’s all very limiting. It doesn’t leave room for the unique child, which is probably what we would be better off having. I think everything is so standardized and when you do that, you take away what’s on the fringes. What’s on the fringe is often times the most vibrant and most powerful.”
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"Schools should push every child to be themselves, and give them the resources and support they need to pursue what they want to pursue. But also give them the space for them to figure that out for themselves. This is a difficult thing to do, but I think if schools are places of wonder and excitement, it’s okay if kids are on different levels."
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Read More“I think back to the one-on-one parent-teacher conferences that I had when I said, ‘Your child is reading below grade level, here are some flashcards you can do with him,’ instead of saying, ‘You know what? Your child is really compassionate. He always wants to help others and problem solve, and reading will come.’”
"I think [school] is really about developing values and there are so many ways to do that. Curriculum matters less and less the more I think about it. But, that's not feasible in our society; we are beholden to these content driven standards. But, I think that…deriving the ability to think deeply, to communicate and ask questions, to recognize beauty and be inspired by it… that's ideally what schools do and those are the skills that kids remember and hold on to.”
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"Schools should provide facilitation…providing opportunity without spoon-feeding a prescribed path or stairway for getting to that happy point. School should make it possible to have a productive journey there, but I don't think they should decide what the productive journey is and then enforce it.”
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