Two Million Minutes (What Should High School Be Like?)
I came across this video on a site run by the Political Science department at the University of St. Thomas: PoliSci@UST. The comparison to China seems to pop up everywhere these days. I mentioned it myself recently in a piece somewhere else on how many Chinese students got doctorates in the U.S. in 2006.
What should high school be like? I’ve worked at three high schools in the past decade. High school should be different. Should it be China? That’s the question in the PoliSci@UST post. My answer is, “Probably not. But it should be different than it is.”
Part of the problem is that the purpose of education is changing. I don’t think we have a clear vision, a national consensus on what purpose education should serve. Globalization will continue to exert influence on us, to try and get us to adopt a global purpose for education when we don’t yet have a national consensus. The time to come to gripes with the issue will be here soon, if it isn’t already here…
