“Students spend their school hours bored, covering irrelevant material, doing mindless tasks, taking far too many standardized tests, and having the creativity and innovation schooled out of them. Our focus shouldn't be to give all kids equal access to the same bad education. We need to reinvent education and give all kids a fighting chance in life. page 58” SkillsSchoolsTony WagnerIrrelevant MaterialTransform Education Book:Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era Source: Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era
“Students were asked only factual recall questions and then given a writing assignment that was, in my opinion, more suited to an elementary school class. They were not asked for their interpretations of the story. They were not asked to discuss a real moral dilemma in their lives and compare it to the one in the story. And they were not asked to write an essay where they would have to analyze a theme of an idea using supporting evidence. In other words, there was no intellectual rigor. Chapter 1” TestsQuoteReformSchoolsReinventTony Wagner Author:Tony Wagner
