11-08-2015, 01:21 PM
(11-07-2015, 03:19 PM)Bengalholic Wrote: I know this video is a few months old, and some have probably seen it or heard about it already, but I was wondering what your opinions are on the subject matter? This video (among other things) was actually used in our school district by students, and a handful of teachers, to start a discussion and ramp up support for including more transferable 'life classes' into the curriculum. So, what do you think?
The video probably gets in its own way while trying to deliver a relevant message. From the early 20th century up until the present surveys of parents across the US have consistently shown the #1 thing parents in communities large and small, urban and rural, want their kids to learn in school is citizenship. And, from the early 20th century up until the present schools have gradually spent less and less time teaching it, and it is now almost entirely absent from every curriculum. As Luke in Cool Hand Luke said, "What we got here is a failure to communicate."
JOHN ROBERTS: From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly so that you will come to know the value of justice... I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either.
