I had the pleasure of listening to a panel on the 50th anniversary of Brown versus Board of Education, at the Harvard Grad School of Education. The talk discussed what Brown did for the US, and how it has been erroded away so today we celebrate Brown… but don’t really have it.
After the talk I was with a bunch of educators talking about many issues. We got to talking about how “No Child Left Behind” is giving us kids that are taught to the test. One of my best teachers in grammar school (in the UK) was someone who taught us to think, rather than to memorize facts. We need to get to that level… let’s teach our kids how to think, and the rest will come.
This is the point where the thought came into my head that:
“Hmm…. teaching the kids to think is like training a code generator. From that initial training it can then be given different input and different solutions will come out”.
Of course this analogy is totally flawed… but I can’t believe that I am such a geek that these thoughts popped into my head :/
