Friday, May 16, 2014

Thinkers vs. Producers

Loved this thought posted on the Dangerously Irrelevant blog:

In How Children Fail, John Holt makes the following distinction:
  • producers - students who are only interested in getting right answers, and who make more or less uncritical use of rules and formulae to get them
  • thinkers – students who try to think about the meaning, the reality, of whatever it is they are working on
A great question to ask ourselves: What is the ratio of thinkers to producers in our school(s)? In most schools, I’m guessing the ratio is fairly small, even for our high-achieving students.
Another great question to ask ourselves: What is an average school day like for those students in our school(s) who ARE thinkers?


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