John Abbott speaks about the role of the community in supporting and improving schools. In particular, he discusses a project in Princeton, New Jersey, in which an entire community (90 000 people strong) was challenged to find a mission statement for their system of education.
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John Abbott discusses a program in Sweden in which students spend a number of school days per year shadowing adults at their jobs. The program begins at the age of seven and continues until high school graduation.
Schools shouldn’t be about handing down a collection of static truths to the next generation but about responding to the needs and interests of the students themselves. When you do that, you won’t have to bribe, threaten, or otherwise artificially induce them to learn. John Dewy, Author
When students’ learning is connected to their lives and interests, they see its relevance and become much more engaged by it. Dona Matthews and Rosanne Menna, Solving Problems Together:
The Importance of Parent/School/Community Collaboration at a Time of Educational and Social Change, Education Canada, Vol. 43 No. 1 (Winter 2003) Success can’t be taught directly.. high achievement is a by-product. Now we are ready to ask: a by-product of what? And the answer is: of interest. Alfie Kohn, Writer and Speaker
A 2007 study by psychologist Carol Dweck from Stanford University shows that if you teach students that their intelligence can grow and increase, they do better in school.
The test of a successful education is not the amount of knowledge that a pupil takes away from a school, but his appetite to know and his capacity to learn. If the school sends out children with the desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. Sir Richard Livingston
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