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I’ve been talking a lot about education and how what we learned in school helped prepare us (or not) for what we do today. My premise is there’s a gap between what we learned and what we do, and as a result, most of us are making it up as we go along. And since that gap has only grown wider, the generation currently in school is going to have it even harder. The educational system in our country is based on a set of assumptions about work and life that were set in stone in the middle of the 20th century. And as long as that’s the case, our children will be fully prepared to work… in the mid-20th century.
The theme seems to have started at SXSWi, morphed into a session at Web2.0 and I’ll be continuing the theme in July at Blog Philadelphia.
There’s a deep down personal reason for all of this – for a lot of reasons, not the least of which would be the huge disconnect between what he’s learning and what he needs to know – we’ve decided to start homeschooling our oldest son.
I know all parents are proud of their children but in my case, I can honestly say that the Boy Genius could spend the next two years watching nothing but Sponge Bob and still be years ahead of most of his peers. And the sad thing is that’s seen by his school not as an asset to be nurtured but a liability to be cured. In short, the boy is a round peg being shoved into a square hole and it’s not working.
So starting next fall, we’ll have two girls in Kindergarten and one boy at home. The adventure continues…
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