Reinventing Education

What’s wrong with schooling?Week 2

Will Curtis

The test-score / interest paradox

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Test scores and happiness….??

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John Gatto and the 7 lesson teacherhttp://www.educationrevolution.org/johngatto.html

What you are taught at school:1. Confusion2. Class position3. Indifference4. Emotional dependency5. Intellectual dependency6. Provisional self-esteem7. One can’t hideArmstrong and Miller teacher

A ‘hidden curriculum’?

‘Correspondence principle’– Motivation by external

rewards– Hierarchy – respect for

authority– Strategies for coping with

boredom/routine