Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100630:20:45:00
Making better teachers, which i'm all for and so on, but if we looked at what constitutes learning, it's basically about passion. it's not about rote. rote is the killer, and if anything we could change in education would be what i would call the death of rote because we get children to memorize things because we can test that, but we don't want a learned society, and all due respect to korea we don't want to emulate them. we want a creative society. we want a society where kids know how to think on their feet, where there's complexity and contradiction. >> adoptability. >> you name it, all th...
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