By Tara Westover — 2022
For kids today from poorer backgrounds, the path I took through education no longer exists.
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Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education.
Education is a dynamic system, not a static one. It's not an impersonal, inert engineering system; it’s constantly in flux. It exists in the actions and activities of people every day and is subject to all kinds of conflicting forces and fluctuations.
In the stereotypical classroom, the teacher spends time in class presenting material to the students. Their homework consists of assignments based on that material.
“The movement towards personalization is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too.”