Education Nation Chapter One

The main points of this chapter that I would outline would be as follows:

Edge One: The Thinking Edge Getting Smarter About Learning

This is the most basic thing that we can do to change education. We have to first change the way we think about education and the process in which we educate students. The hardest thing to change in education is our memories and with those we have a hard time considering a change in education. John Dewey is an educator who started a school in New York. He had three main points based on his thoughts about education the first was, the importance of education in meeting societal goals and success of the American Democracy. I really enjoyed this point I thought this was so true. We can see today how the lack of a quality education can effect people in this country. Dewey could actually tie individual growth with societal growth. Another main point that Dewey had was that you should connect a children s learning to his life. I could not think this was a better point. When I connect things to myself I really feel like I learn them. The other points of this chapter are as follows, one main point that I pulled out of this chapter is that we need to change the way we measure learning and that obviously this No Child Left Behind system of testing is not helping our children become educated.
"Feed the elephant don't weigh the Elephant," this is a great quote connecting the idea of testing to other things with NCLB we are just weighing the elephant while we should be feeding it. These are some of the main points I took out of chapter one. I really am enjoying what this book is telling me and this is very interesting.