EDUCATION — Digital Version

EDUCATION — Digital Edition

We’ve got it all wrong!

What is education really for?

For generations, we have treated education primarily as preparation for employment — teaching young people how to earn a living, pass examinations and fit into an existing system. But is that enough?

EDUCATION challenges readers to think again about what schools should actually be trying to achieve. Before we teach a child how to make a living, perhaps we should also teach them how to live — how to think, question, reason, communicate, understand themselves and make sense of the world around them.

Rather than accepting traditional ideas about schooling simply because they have been handed down to us, this book invites readers to examine the purpose of education itself and ask whether the systems we have built are really serving young people as well as they could.

Written for parents, teachers, students and anyone interested in how human beings learn and develop, EDUCATION is an invitation to reconsider some of our most familiar assumptions about learning.

Perhaps the problem is not that children are failing education. Perhaps education is failing children.

By Jacob Van Der Land

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