The importance of seeing education as one of the means to prepare students for engagement in society by using authentically developed skills, rather than a machine to encourage memorization of facts and a means to further divide those who can survive traditional methods of instruction and those who can't.
“I’ve learned that there’s often a huge gap between policies pronounced in the capital and what actually happens at the grass roots.”
- Nicholas Kristof
This situation plays out worldwide as leaders in both developing and developed nations make announcements of their ideal education system. Educators need the processes, materials or staffing to successfully achieve these ideals, and they are rarely available or provided. It is the students who end up losing out or, in some cases, harmed in the end.
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