Our schools have become Production Oriented, nervously concerned about making things "look good". We cover up our own basic failure to educate in the truest sense, by talking about how education must be Rigorous and Demanding from an early age. Great concern is voiced over the children who are not sufficiently motivated to withstand the pressures brought to bear on them.
There is surprise that many children do not seem concerned about meeting the standards set for them. And there is even greater surprise that it is often these children who are most creative. NOT ALL CHILDREN ARE READY TO ACCEPT A HAIR-SHIRT ORIENTATION TOWARD LEARNING AT AN EARLY AGE.
Those who do not conform and are successful are cheated just as fully as those who do not conform and learn to mistrust their own abilities. Leicestershire (England) helped us to see just how sick our schools really are. What happened there gives strong support to the vision of people who have known that there are more effective and humane forms of education. But this realization also provides a formidable challenge to those of us who would try to implement these beliefs in the USA.
Leicestershire England
School Visits
1961
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Please post more about Bill Hull's work in the USA.
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