In
the article “Gift of Grit, Curiosity help Kids Succeed: Character Helps Kids
Succeed and it can be Taught”, Jerry Large, Seattle
Times columnist writes, “A big part of building character is overcoming
failure. Too much adversity is bad, but so is too little, which doesn't allow a
child to build grit.”
John
Gatto questions in his article “Against School”, “Could
it be that our schools are designed to make sure not one of them every really
grows up?
Gatto makes a
call for action to parents, writing, "School trains children to be
employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains
children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and
independently."
According to Paulo
Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher, "Narration (with the teacher
as narrator) leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account.
Worse yet, it turns them into "containers," into
"receptacles" to be "filled" by the teachers.
They must
abandon the educational goal of deposit-making and replace it with the posing
of the problems of human beings in their relations with the world. –
Freire
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