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**This is a story based on the United States school system, specifically in Los Angeles. But I don’t think Canada is far off.**
I was driving back from an amazing day on Cote First Nation teaching students as young as grade 4 to build websites. It was incredible, the students were engaged, we were laughing a lot, they understood what I was talking about and they built some pretty cool pages…..now with a lot of Fortnight references but hey, you can’t win em all right?!
On the way home I’m listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History, specifically the episode titled “Carlos Doesn’t Remember”. It starts off as the first in a three part series on education in the US. What I didn’t know is that I’d be in tears by the end of the podcast. Lonely, driving by myself for three hours pondering how we went so wrong with education.
After you listen to all three in the series you’ll have a different opinion of education. For the better I hope. Just because it is dire in some areas doesn’t mean there isn’t hope. People like Eric Eisner are what give me hope. Without everyday heroes like him I’m not sure if I’d have such a positive outlook on the future of education. But there’s always hope.
We should all be a little more like Eric Eisner.
Bonus!!!
Here are the following two podcasts to round out Gladwell’s three part series on higher education.
Food Fight – the comparison of two colleges, one in upstate New York, the other in Maine. Roughly the same size and both have a history of academic excellence. But this is the tale of two entirely different ideologies. A great podcast that opens your eyes to a whole new level of privilege.
My Little Hundred Million – the story of when massive donations to Universities first began and how it has spread, for better or for worse. Gladwell actually sits down with the President of Stanford University to discuss endowments and why they still seek out mo money, mo money, mo money!