Thoughts from the Frontline - Rethinking Education By John Mauldin & Peter Diamandis
Rethinking Education
By John Mauldin | Oct 22, 2017
This week’s letter will be more like an Outside the Box
than a Thoughts from the Frontline. I am feeling under the weather, and while I
can read and move around somewhat, I am really not thinking all that well and
am not up to wasting your time writing a letter that neither you nor I will be
happy with.
Thankfully, my friend Peter Diamandis sent a letter
detailing his vision of the future of education, and I want to share it with
you. I have been struck by the number of times in the last year when, as I
begin to talk about the problems our society will face in the coming years –
especially as regards the future of work –someone says “The answer is more
education.”
I don’t want to be glib, but our educational system is
largely a failure in producing children and young adults ready for the future.
Why we would think that more of that would be useful? What we need to do is
completely rethink the whole concept of what we call education. I will admit to
being somewhat at a loss, having read many treatises and essays on changing
education, but finding nothing that really brings it together.
Peter lives and breathes the future. I attended his
executive seminar at Singularity University many years ago – an experience I
highly recommend – and he has spoken at my conference. He is the founder of the
XPRIZES and so much more – the accolades would take a full page. Go to his wiki
page if you’re curious.
I am going to reproduce his letter with few edits, and
though it is a little longer than our usual Outside the Box, it is unusually
thoughtful and thought-provoking. If you are interested in what education must
and will become, here is a good place to start. And so, without further ado,
here’s Peter.
Reinventing Our Kids’ Education
By Peter Diamandis
This week, Bill Gates announced his plan to invest almost
$1.7 billion into reforming U.S. public education over the next five years.
Of that sum, he allocated 25 percent to “big bets –
innovations with the potential to change the trajectory of public education
over the next 10 to 15 years.”
I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of education –
both for my two 6-year-old boys and the employees of my companies.
This is a topic I’ll cover in depth at Abundance 360 in
January in Beverly Hills. My guest presenters are Sebastian Thrun, co-founder
of Udacity; Max Ventilla, CEO of AltSchool; and Carin Watson, EVP of Learning
& Education at Singularity University.
Earlier this year, I wrote a whitepaper on how I would
reinvent K-12 education for an exponential world. You can read my thoughts
below – or download it here: http://www.diamandis.com/education-white-paper
I started asking myself, given the fact that most
elementary schools haven’t changed in decades (maybe longer), what do I want my
kids to learn? How would I reinvent elementary school during an exponential
era?
This blog covers five subjects related to elementary
school education:
1. Five Issues with Today’s Elementary Schools
2. Five Guiding Principles for Future Education
3. An Elementary School Curriculum for the Future
4. Exponential Technologies in our Classroom
5. Mindsets for the 21st Century
Excuse the length, but if you have kids, the details
might be meaningful. If you don’t, then next week’s blog will return to normal
length and another fun subject. Let’s dive in…
Five Issues with Today’s Elementary Schools
There’s probably lots of issues with today’s traditional
elementary schools, but I’ll just choose a few that bother me most.
1. Grading: In the traditional education
system, you start at an “A,” and every time you get something wrong, your score
gets lower and lower. At best it’s demotivating, and at worst it has nothing to
do with the world you occupy as an adult. In the gaming world (e.g. Angry
Birds), it’s just the opposite. You start with zero and every time you come up
with something right, your score gets higher and higher.
2. Sage on the Stage: Most classrooms have a
teacher up in front of class lecturing to a classroom of students, half of whom
are bored and half of whom are lost. The one-teacher-fits-all model comes from
an era of scarcity where great teachers and schools were rare.
3. Relevance: When I think back to elementary
and secondary school, I realize how much of what I learned was never actually
useful later in life, and how many of my critical lessons for success I had to
pick up on my own. (I don’t know about you, but I haven’t ever actually had to
factor a polynomial in my adult life.)
4. Imagination - Coloring Inside the
Lines: Probably of greatest concern to me is the factory-worker,
industrial-era origin of today’s schools – programs so structured with rote
memorization that it squashes the originality from most children. I’m reminded
that “the day before something is truly a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”
Where do we pursue crazy ideas in our schools? Where do we foster imagination?
5. Boring: If learning in school is a chore,
boring or emotionless, then the most important driver of human learning,
passion, is disengaged. Having our children memorize facts and figures, sit
passively in class and take mundane standardized tests completely defeats the
purpose.
An average of 7,200 students drop out of high school each
day, totaling 1.3 million each year. This means only 69% of students who start
high school finish four years later. And over 50% of these high school
dropouts name boredom as the No. 1 reason they left.
Five Guiding Principles for Future Education:
I imagine a relatively near-term future in which robotics
and artificial intelligence will allow any of us, from ages 8 to 108, to easily
and quickly find answers, create products or accomplish tasks, all simply by
expressing our desires.
From ‘mind to manufactured in moments.’ In short, we’ll
be able to do and create almost whatever we want.
In this future, what attributes will be most critical for
our children to learn to become successful in their adult life? What’s most
important for educating our children today?
For me it’s about passion, curiosity, imagination,
critical thinking and grit.
1. Passion: You’d be amazed at how many people
don’t have a mission in life… A calling… something to jolt them out of bed
every morning. The most valuable resource for humanity is the persistent and
passionate human mind, so creating a future of passionate kids is so very
important.
For my 5-year-old boys, I want to support them in finding
their passion or purpose… something that is uniquely theirs. In the same way
that the Apollo program and Star Trek drove my early love for all things space,
and that passion drove me to learn and do.
2. Curiosity: Curiosity is something innate in
kids, yet something lost by most adults during the course of their life. Why?
In a world of Google, robots and AI, raising a kid that
is constantly asking questions and running “what if” experiments can be
extremely valuable. In an age of machine learning, massive data and a trillion
sensors, it will be the quality of your questions that will be most important.
3. Imagination: Entrepreneurs and visionaries
imagine the world (and the future) they want to live in, and then they create
it. Kids happen to be some of the most imaginative humans around… it’s critical
that they know how important and liberating imagination can be.
4. Critical Thinking: In a world flooded with
often-conflicting ideas, baseless claims, misleading headlines, negative news
and misinformation, learning the skill of critical thinking helps find the
signal in the noise. This principle is perhaps the most difficult to teach
kids.
5. Grit/Persistence: Grit is defined as
“passion and perseverance in pursuit of long-term goals,” and it has recently
been widely acknowledged as one of the most important predictors of and
contributors to success.
Teaching your kids not to give up, to keep trying, and to
keep trying new ideas for something that they are truly passionate about
achieving is extremely critical. Much of my personal success has come from such
stubbornness. I joke that both XPRIZE and the Zero Gravity Corporation were
“overnight successes after 10 years of hard work.”
So given those five basic principles, what would an
elementary curriculum look like? Let’s take a look…
An Elementary School Curriculum for the Future
Over the last 30 years, I’ve had the pleasure of starting
two universities, International Space University (1987) and Singularity
University (2007). My favorite part of cofounding both institutions was
designing and implementing the curriculum. Along those lines, the following is
my first shot at the type of curriculum I’d love my own boys to be learning.
I’d love your thoughts – I’ll be looking for them
here:
For the purpose of illustration, I’ll speak about ‘courses’
or ‘modules,’ but in reality these are just elements that would ultimately be
woven together throughout the course of K-6 education.
Module 1: Storytelling/Communications
When I think about the skill that has served me best in
life, it’s been my ability to present my ideas in the most compelling fashion
possible, to get others onboard, and support birth and growth in an innovative
direction. In my adult life, as an entrepreneur and a CEO, it’s been my ability
to communicate clearly and tell compelling stories that has allowed me to
create the future. I don’t think this lesson can start too early in life. So
imagine a module, year after year, where our kids learn the art and practice of
formulating and pitching their ideas. The best of oration and storytelling.
Perhaps children in this class would watch TED presentations, or maybe they’d
put together their own TEDx for kids. Ultimately, it’s about practice and
getting comfortable with putting yourself and your ideas out there and
overcoming any fears of public speaking.
Module 2: Passions
A modern school should help our children find and explore
their passion(s). Passion is the greatest gift of self-discovery. It is a
source of interest and excitement, and is unique to each child.
The key to finding passion is exposure. Allowing kids to
experience as many adventures, careers and passionate adults as possible.
Historically, this was limited by the reality of geography and cost,
implemented by having local moms and dads presenting in class about their careers.
“Hi, I’m Alan, Billy’s dad, and I’m an accountant. Accountants are people who…”
But in a world of YouTube and virtual reality, the
ability for our children to explore 500 different possible careers or passions
during their K-6 education becomes not only possible but compelling. I imagine
a module where children share their newest passion each month, sharing videos
(or VR experiences) and explaining what they love and what they’ve learned.
Module 3: Curiosity & Experimentation
Einstein famously said, “I have no special talent. I am
only passionately curious.” Curiosity is innate in children, and many times
lost later in life. Arguably, it can be said that curiosity is responsible for
all major scientific and technological advances – the desire of an individual
to know the truth.
Coupled with curiosity is the process of experimentation
and discovery. The process of asking questions, creating and testing a
hypothesis, and repeated experimentation until the truth is found. As I’ve
studied the most successful entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial companies, from
Google and Amazon to Uber, their success is significantly due to their
relentless use of experimentation to define their products and services.
Here I imagine a module which instills in children the
importance of curiosity and gives them permission to say, “I don’t know, let’s
find out.”
Further, a monthly module that teaches children how to
design and execute valid and meaningful experiments. Imagine children who learn
the skill of asking a question, proposing a hypothesis, designing an
experiment, gathering the data and then reaching a conclusion.
Module 4: Persistence/Grit
Doing anything big, bold and significant in life is hard
work. You can’t just give up when the going gets rough. The mindset of persistence,
of grit, is a learned behavior and I believe can be taught at an early age,
especially when it’s tied to pursuing a child’s passion.
I imagine a curriculum that, each week, studies the
career of a great entrepreneur and highlights their story of persistence. It
would highlight the individuals and companies that stuck with it, iterated and
ultimately succeeded.
Further, I imagine a module that combines persistence and
experimentation in gameplay such as that found in Dean Kamen’s FIRST LEGO
league, where 4th graders (and up) research a real-world problem such as food
safety, recycling, energy and so on, and are challenged to develop a solution.
They also must design, build and program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS®, then
compete on a tabletop playing field.
Module 5: Technology Exposure
In a world of rapidly accelerating technology,
understanding how technologies work, what they do and their potential for
benefiting society is, in my humble opinion, critical to a child’s future.
Technology and coding (more on this below) are the new “lingua franca” of
tomorrow.
In this module, I imagine teaching (age appropriate) kids
through play and demonstration. Giving them an overview of exponential
technologies such as computation, sensors, networks, artificial intelligence,
digital manufacturing, genetic engineering, augmented/virtual reality and
robotics, to name a few. This module is not about making a child an expert in
any technology, it’s more about giving them the language of these new tools,
and conceptually an overview of how they might use such a technology in the
future. The goal here is to get them excited, give them demonstrations that make
the concepts stick, and then to let their imaginations run.
Module 6: Empathy
Empathy, defined as “the ability to understand and share
the feelings of another,” has been recognized as one of the most critical
skills for our children today. And while there has been much written, and great
practices for instilling this at home and in school, today’s new tools
accelerate this.
Virtual reality isn’t just about video games anymore.
Artists, activists and journalists now see the technology’s potential to be an
empathy engine, one that can shine spotlights on everything from the Ebola
epidemic to what it’s like to live in Gaza. And Jeremy Bailenson has been at
the vanguard of investigating VR’s power for good.
For more than a decade, Bailenson’s lab at Stanford has
been studying how VR can make us better people. Through the power of VR,
volunteers at the lab have felt what it is like to be Superman (to see if it
makes them more helpful), a cow (to reduce meat consumption) and even a coral
(to learn about ocean acidification).
Silly as they might seem, these sorts of VR scenarios
could be more effective than the traditional public service ad at making people
behave. Afterwards, they waste less paper. They save more money for retirement.
They’re nicer to the people around them. And this could have consequences in
terms of how we teach and train everyone from cliquey teenagers to high court
judges
Module 7: Ethics/Moral Dilemmas
Related to empathy, and equally important, is the goal of
Infusing kids with a moral compass. Recently I toured a special school created
by Elon Musk (the Ad Astra school) for his five boys (age 8 to 13). One element
that is persistent in that small school of 31 kids is the conversation about
ethics and morals, a conversation manifested by debating real-world scenarios
that our kids may one day face.
Here’s an example of the sort of gameplay/roleplay that I
heard about at Ad Astra, that might be implemented in a module on morals and
ethics. Imagine a small town on a lake, in which the majority of the town is
employed by a single factory. But that factory has been polluting the lake and
killing all the life. What do you do? It’s posed that shutting down the factory
would mean that everyone loses their jobs. On the other hand, keeping the
factory open means the lake is destroyed and the lake dies. This kind of
regular and routine conversation/gameplay allows the children to see the world
in a critically important fashion.
Module 8: The 3R Basics (Reading, wRiting &
aRithmetic)
There’s no question that young children entering
kindergarten need the basics of reading, writing and math. The only question is
what’s the best way for them to get it? We all grew up in the classic mode of a
teacher at the chalkboard, books and homework at night. But I would argue that
such teaching approaches are long outdated, now replaced with apps, gameplay
and the concept of the flip classroom.
Pioneered by high school teachers Jonathan Bergman and
Aaron Sams in 2007, the flipped classroom reverses the sequence of events from
that of the traditional classroom.
Students view lecture materials, usually in the form of
video lectures, as homework prior to coming to class. In-class time is reserved
for activities such as interactive discussions or collaborative work – all
performed under the guidance of the teacher.
The benefits are clear:
1. Students can consume lectures at their own pace,
viewing the video again and again until they get the concept, or
fast-forwarding if the information is obvious.
2. The teacher is present while students apply new
knowledge. Doing the homework into class time gives teachers insight into which
concepts, if any, that their students are struggling with and helps them adjust
the class accordingly.
3. The flipped classroom produces tangible results: 71%
of teachers who flipped their classes noticed improved grades, and 80% reported
improved student attitudes as a result.
Module 9: Creative Expression & Improvisation
Every single one of us is creative. It’s human nature to
be creative… the thing is that we each might have different ways of expressing
our creativity.
We must encourage kids to discover and to develop their
creative outlets early. In this module, imagine showing kids the many different
ways creativity is expressed – from art to engineering to music to math – and
then guiding them as they choose the area (or areas) they are most interested
in. Critically, teachers (or parents) can then develop unique lessons for each
child based on their interests, thanks to open education resources like YouTube
and the Khan Academy. If my child is interested in painting and robots, a
teacher or AI could scour the Web and put together a custom lesson set from
videos/articles where the best painters and roboticists in the world share
their skills.
Adapting to change is critical for success, especially in
our constantly changing world today. Improvisation is a skill that can be
learned, and we need to be teaching it early.
In most collegiate “improv” classes, the core of great
improvisation is the “Yes, And…” mindset. When acting out a scene, one actor
might introduce a new character or idea, completely changing the context of the
scene. It’s critical that the other actors in the scene say “Yes, and…” accept
the new reality, then add something new of their own.
Imagine playing similar role-play games in elementary
schools, where a teacher gives the students a scene/context and constantly
changes variables, forcing them to adapt and play.
Module 10: Coding
Computer science opens more doors for students than any
other discipline in today’s world. Learning even the basics will help students
in virtually any career, from architecture to zoology.
Coding is an important tool for computer science, in the
way that arithmetic is a tool for doing mathematics and words are a tool for
English. Coding creates software, but computer science is a broad field
encompassing deep concepts that go well beyond coding.
Every 21st century student should also have a chance to
learn about algorithms, how to make an app or how the Internet works.
Computational thinking allows preschoolers to grasp concepts like algorithms,
recursion and heuristics – even if they don’t understand the terms, they’ll
learn the basic concepts.
There are more than 500,000 open jobs in computing right
now, representing the No. 1 source of new wages in the United States, and these
jobs are projected to grow at twice the rate of all other jobs.
Coding is fun! Beyond the practical reasons for learning
how to code, there’s the fact that creating a game or animation can be really
fun for kids.
Module 11: Entrepreneurship & Sales
At its core, entrepreneurship is about identifying a
problem (an opportunity), developing a vision on how to solve it, and working
with a team to turn that vision into reality. I mentioned Elon’s school, Ad
Astra: here, again, entrepreneurship is a core discipline where students create
and actually sell products and services to each other and the school community.
You could recreate this basic exercise with a group of
kids in lots of fun ways to teach them the basic lessons of entrepreneurship.
Related to entrepreneurship is sales. In my opinion, we
need to be teaching sales to every child at an early age. Being able to “sell”
an idea (again related to storytelling) has been a critical skill in my career,
and it is a competency that many people simply never learned.
The lemonade stand has been a classic, though somewhat
meager, lesson in sales from past generations, where a child sits on a street
corner and tries to sell homemade lemonade for $0.50 to people passing by. I’d
suggest we step the game up and take a more active approach in gamifying sales,
and maybe having the classroom create a Kickstarter, Indiegogo or GoFundMe
campaign. The experience of creating a product or service and successfully
selling it will create an indelible memory and give students the tools to
change the world.
Module 12: Language
I just returned from a week in China meeting with parents
whose focus on kids’ education is extraordinary. One of the areas I found
fascinating is how some of the most advanced parents are teaching their kids
new languages: through games. On the tablet, the kids are allowed to play
games, but only in French. A child’s desire to win fully engages them and
drives their learning rapidly.
Beyond games, there’s virtual reality. We know that full
immersion is what it takes to become fluent (at least later in life). A
semester abroad in France or Italy, and you’ve got a great handle on the
language and the culture. But what about for an 8-year-old?
Imagine a module where for an hour each day, the children
spend their time walking around Italy in a VR world, hanging out with AI-driven
game characters who teach them, engage them, and share the culture and the
language in the most personalized and compelling fashion possible.
Exponential Technologies for Our Classrooms
If you’ve attended Abundance 360 or Singularity
University, or followed my blogs, you’ll probably agree with me that the way
our children will learn is going to fundamentally transform over the next
decade.
Here’s an overview of the top five
technologies that will reshape the future of education:
Tech 1: Virtual Reality (VR) can make learning truly
immersive. Research has shown that we remember 20% of what we hear, 30% of
what we see, and up to 90% of what we do or simulate. Virtual reality yields
the latter scenario impeccably. VR enables students to simulate flying through the
bloodstream while learning about different cells they encounter, or travel to
Mars to inspect the surface for life. To make this a reality, Google Cardboard
just launched its Pioneer Expeditions product. Under this program, thousands of
schools around the world have gotten a kit containing everything a teacher
needs to take his or her class on a virtual trip. While data on VR use in K-12
schools and colleges have yet to be gathered, the steady growth of the market
is reflected in the surge of companies (including zSpace, Alchemy VR and
Immersive VR Education) solely dedicated to providing schools with packaged
education curriculum and content.
Add to VR a related technology called augmented reality
(AR), and experiential education really comes alive. Imagine wearing an AR
headset that is able to superimpose educational lessons on top of real-world
experiences. Interested in botany? As you walk through a garden, the AR headset
superimposes the name and details of every plant you see.
Tech 2: 3D Printing is allowing students to bring
their ideas to life. Never mind the computer on every desktop (or a tablet
for every student), that’s a given. In the near future, teachers and students
will want or have a 3D printer on the desk to help them learn core science,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) principles. Bre Pettis, of
MakerBot Industries, in a grand but practical vision, sees a 3D printer on
every school desk in America. “Imagine if you had a 3D printer instead of a
LEGO set when you were a kid; what would life be like now?” asks Mr. Pettis.
You could print your own mini-figures, your own blocks, and you could iterate
on new designs as quickly as your imagination would allow. MakerBots are now in
over 5,000 K-12 schools across the United States.
Taking this one step further, you could imagine having a
3D file for most entries in Wikipedia, allowing you to print out and study an
object you can only read about or visualize in VR.
Tech 3: Sensors & Networks. An explosion of
sensors and networks are going to connect everyone at gigabit speeds, making
access to rich video available at all times. At the same time, sensors continue
to miniaturize and reduce in power, becoming embedded in everything. One
benefit will be the connection of sensor data with machine learning and AI
(below), such that knowledge of a child’s attention drifting, or confusion, can
be easily measured and communicated. The result would be a representation of
the information through an alternate modality or at a different speed.
Tech 4: Machine Learning is making learning adaptive
and personalized. No two students are identical – they have different
modes of learning (by reading, seeing, hearing, doing), come from different
educational backgrounds, and have different intellectual capabilities and
attention spans. Advances in machine learning and the surging adaptive learning
movement are seeking to solve this problem. Companies like Knewton and Dreambox
have over 15 million students on their respective adaptive learning platforms.
Soon, every education application will be adaptive, learning how to personalize
the lesson for a specific student. There will be adaptive quizzing apps,
flashcard apps, textbook apps, simulation apps and many more.
Tech 5: Artificial Intelligence or “An AI Teaching
Companion.”
Neil Stephenson’s book The Diamond Age presents a
fascinating piece of educational technology called “A Young Lady’s Illustrated
Primer.”
As described by Beat Schwendimann, “The primer is an
interactive book that can answer a learner’s questions (spoken in natural
language), teach through allegories that incorporate elements of the learner’s
environment, and presents contextual just-in-time information.
“The primer includes sensors that monitor the learner’s
actions and provide feedback. The learner is in a cognitive apprenticeship with
the book: The primer models a certain skill (through allegorical fairy tale
characters), which the learner then imitates in real life.
“The primer follows a learning progression with
increasingly more complex tasks. The educational goals of the primer are
humanist: To support the learner to become a strong and independently thinking
person.”
The primer, an individualized AI teaching companion is
the result of technological convergence and is beautifully described by
YouTuber CGP Grey in his video: Digital Aristotle: Thoughts on the Future
of Education.
Your AI companion will have unlimited access to
information on the cloud and will deliver it at the optimal speed to each
student in an engaging, fun way. This AI will demonetize and democratize
education, be available to everyone for free (just like Google), and offering
the best education to the wealthiest and poorest children on the planet
equally.
This AI companion is not a tutor who spouts facts,
figures and answers, but a player on the side of the student, there to help him
or her learn, and in so doing, learn how to learn better. The AI is always
alert, watching for signs of frustration and boredom that may precede quitting,
for signs of curiosity or interest that tend to indicate active exploration,
and for signs of enjoyment and mastery, which might indicate a successful
learning experience.
Ultimately, we’re heading towards a vastly more educated
world. We are truly living during the most exciting time to be alive.
(NOTE: At this very moment, the XPRIZE Foundation is
operating a $15M Global Learning XPRIZE in which >100 teams are
building Android-based software designed to take an illiterate student in the
middle of Tanzania and get them to basic reading, writing and numeracy in 18
months.)
Mindsets for the 21st Century
Finally, it’s important for me to discuss mindsets. How
we think about the future colors how we learn and what we do. I’ve written
extensively about the importance of an abundance and exponential mindset for
entrepreneurs and CEOs. I also think that attention to mindset in our
elementary schools, when a child is shaping the mental “operating system” for
the rest of their life, is even more important.
As such, I would recommend that a school adopt a set of
principles that teach and promote a number of mindsets in the fabric of their
programs.
Many “mindsets” are important to promote. Here are a
couple to consider:
Nurturing Optimism & An Abundance Mindset:
We live in a competitive world, and kids experience a
significant amount of pressure to perform. When they fall short, they feel
deflated. We all fail at times – that’s part of life. If we want to raise
“can-do” kids who can work through failure and come out stronger for it, it’s
wise to nurture optimism. Optimistic kids are more willing to take healthy
risks, are better problem-solvers and experience positive relationships. You
can nurture optimism in your school by starting each day by focusing on
gratitude (what each child is grateful for), or a “positive focus” in which
each student takes 30 seconds to talk about what they are most excited about,
or what recent event was positively impactful to them. (NOTE: I start every
meeting inside my PHD Ventures team with a positive focus.)
Finally, helping students understand (through data and
graphs) that the world is in fact getting better (see my first
book: Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think) will help them
counter the continuous flow of negative news flowing through our news media.
When kids feel confident in their abilities and excited
about the world, they are willing to work harder and be more creative.
Tolerance for Failure:
Tolerating failure is a difficult lesson to learn and a
difficult lesson to teach. But it is critically important to succeeding in
life.
Astro Teller, who runs Google’s innovation branch “X,”
talks a lot about encouraging failure. At X, they regularly try to “kill” their
ideas. If they are successful in killing an idea, and thus “failing,” they save
lots of time, money and resources. The ideas they can’t kill survive and
develop into billion-dollar businesses. The key is that each time an idea is
killed, Astro rewards the team – literally, with cash bonuses. Their failure is
celebrated and they become a hero.
This should be reproduced in the classroom: kids should
try to be critical of their best ideas (learn critical thinking), then they
should be celebrated for ‘successfully failing’ – perhaps with cake, balloons,
confetti and lots of Silly String.
__________
And with that I will sign off and wish you a great week,
without the usual personal comment.
Your needing a little rest analyst,
John Mauldin
subscribers@MauldinEconomics.com
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