This need to be number one also explains why we can no longer settle for teaching to the “whole child.” The trouble is that if you have a whole of something, you have only one of it. From now on, therefore, you can expect to see conferences devoted to educating a “child-and-a-half” CAAH. Nothing less will do in a 22nd-century global – or possibly interplanetary – economy.
– Alfie Kohn
LINK When 21st-Century Schooling Just Isn’t Good Enough.
I cannot stress how incredibly good this article is. You should stop whatever you are doing right now and read it. Seriously. Stop. Go!
– Chris
