NYT today — “Panel Releases Proposal to Set U.S. Standards for Education”
“The standards, posted on the panel’s web site, lay out the panel’s vision of what American public school students should learn…”
Education is not the same as programming computers. Education is not about the content to be learned but the process of learning. Without methods, standards are worse than useless. Teachers will do whatever it takes to meet standards and students will learn to do whatever it takes as well — education be damned. Without a theory of learning and a methodology for promoting and facilitating learning, the educational enterprise will do more harm than good to human beings.
So what is the current educational methodology in America? Get a bigger hammer.
Come on folks! It’s not WHAT you know that matters. It’s HOW you know.
