I have really changed my opinion of learning since reading this book. It really made me think differently on our approach of learning. I believe our focus on learning has changed over 100 years. When school first began education was only for people who could afford because most people had work just to make ends meet. We shifted in desire when we mandated school in America. Students are held to the same standard to students who actually want to be at school who have the desire. “We need to be open minded and critical about what actually raises our quality of life.”(144). This is what school was supposed to be about. Improving quality of life. It has turned into a forced thing. I see why our country does that, but there has to be a grey area we are too much black or white. We have this goal for 100% college when not everyone was meant to go to college. What if a student likes to build with their hands or fix cars it seems like these type of interests are considered “not the norm” or looked down upon. The new age thinking allows students to have interests in what every they like and not what society says to like.
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