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The Purpose of School

In the discussion post last week, Sir Ken Robinson suggested that schools are killing creativity. Seth Goding also challenges us in his TedTalk, Stop Stealing Dreams: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS, to think about what is the purpose of school. He suggests eight things that will change education and shift our education system, including “there is zero value worth memorizing anything ever again. Anything worth memorizing is worth looking up.” He also shares that “we should measure experience instead of test scores” and “grades are an illusion.” What connections do you see to the ideas that Sir Ken suggested about schools killing creativity? Are Common Core State Standards a help or a hindrance in fostering creativity? How would following Seth Godin’s advice support or inhibit the idea that our students need to be better prepared to compete against others in the global economy? How would this advice inhibit or improve the ability for students to learn twenty-first century skills? Explain your thinking.

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ENTRY TWO**
Not to spoil the ending of a proverbial “movie” before everyone has enjoyed the chance
to see it, but the prime point – the be-all, end-all and surely the cogent conclusion lecturer Seth
Godin desires – is that there is no “right” answer, no final proclamation carved in stone like the
Ten Commandments. After all, the iconic, prolific author and speaker (intentionally so) never
even answers his titular Question: “What is school for?” (Godin, 2012, p. 1). That, more than
anything else, tells us in the street vernacular what he is “all about” and what resonates within
the ingrained purpose of his entire overarching contextual message. There are no right answers,
and it is wrong to ceaselessly (and pointlessly) search for them. It is the process that matters
most, and the pursuit of excellence.
Godin goes on to stress the same theme in more succinct style, stating we (that is,
society) “constantly instruct students to collect dots [of information or data] but not to connect
them” (Godin, 2012, p. 12). This meshes malleably and dovetails nicely with last week’s
strategic focus upon Sir Ken Robinson’s likeminded, salient ideas that schools are killing
creativity; basically, Godin has just found another way to present the same paradigm – perhaps in
a more creative fashion himself. He condemns the overreliance on standardized testing as an
“abomination” and further – in fiery deliverance – laments the over-time incarnation of schools
as “forced factories designed to engender obedience, compliance and ultimately participation as
a consumer” (Godin, pp. 3-8). Again, this echoes Sir Richard from last week, mightily so.
Godin agrees wholly (and wholeheartedly) with Sir Richard in...


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