Moving Beyond Testing Listening Skills
by on May 26, 2009
We have opted not to create schools as places where children’s curiosity, sensory awareness, power, and communication can flourish, but rather to erect temples of knowledge where we sit them down, tell them a lot of stuff we think is important, try to control their restless curiosity, and test them to see how well they’ve listened to us.
- Robert Fried
The Game of School, pp. 58–59
katie Jun 3
I think more teachers and instructors should take this quote to heart.