What if teachers looked at their students as apprentices? I mean, before schools, most of learning was hands on, at the foot of a master, at least for the masses. What if we tried harder to capture that in classrooms?
But what if the master/apprentice relationship was not focused on subject first, but on learning? That kids in schools were at the foot not of those who know the most about, let’s say, science, but of those who are masters at learning science. That the emphasis of our assessment would be on a student’s ability to learn science. Or Shakespeare. Or history. That they would learn to learn like scientists or historians or mathematicians.
That kind of emphasis would remake school cultures. It would build skills and dispositions that would cross disciplines. And it would better prepare kids to flourish in this world.
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