Six Word Memoirs on Life Stories

Sharon_Lewis says,

Last week a student asked me how I got to be so smart. I said by paying attention. She immediately assumed she was being yelled at. The first week back is always an adjustment for all of us. Anyway, I have been thinking about how we really learn. Some learning is by rote: spelling, mulitiplication tables, etc.

But deeper lessons for life are learned by listening, asking questions to better understand what we hear or read, listening to the answers, digesting what we hear, and repeating these steps as necessary.

Too often our children are taught to repeat what they have been told by their parents, the media, their teachers. Schools teach to tests more and more under pressure from legislators who just want to say they have done something for education. Our children get left behind. Our future gets restricted.

We all need to think more and react less.