In reviewing some of my clippings I found the information below and want to share it with everyone interested in our children's and grandchildren's education. I especially like the reference to Rip Van Winkle.  If you are interested in this book, Becoming Brilliant ,you can see and purchase it from Amazon



Becoming Brilliant by

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff  and Kathy HirshPasek

Golinkoff: We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having to score at the top level on some test. The irony is, kids could score at the top and still not succeed at finding great employment or becoming a great person.
Hirsh-Pasek: If Rip Van Winkle came back, there's only one institution he would recognize: "Oh! That's a school. Kids are still sitting in rows, still listening to the font of wisdom at the front of the classroom."
We're training kids to do what computers do, which is spit back facts. And computers are always going to be better than human beings at that. But what they're not going to be better at is being social, navigating relationships, being citizens in a community. So we need to change the whole definition of what success in school, and out of school, means.