Anything, really

But if you’re afraid to fail, you’re afraid to take risks, which begins to explain the final and most damning disadvantage of an elite education: that it is profoundly anti-intellectual. This will seem counterintuitive. Aren’t kids at elite schools the smartest ones around, at least in the narrow academic sense? Don’t they work harder than anyone else—indeed, harder than any previous generation? They are. They do. But being an intellectual is not the same as being smart. Being an intellectual means more than doing your homework.

Training wheels don’t help us learn to ride bicycles without them, so why do we still use them?

The next wave of digital products won’t just be about archiving the web; they’ll be about destroying the archive.

 ”Since all human societies, past and present, so far as we know, make and respond to art, it must contribute something essential to human life. But what?”

“But once one begins to bear down upon the supposed distinction between the practical and the theoretical, cracks appear.”

For her, it was about more than facts and figures. It was about the love of learning and the love of self. It was the great entangle, education in the grandest frame, what sticks with you when all else falls away. As Albert Einstein once said: “Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

The central tenet of charter schools is freedom in exchange for accountability. At KIPP, one of our founding principles is “Power to Lead” — giving principals the autonomy to adapt and innovate within their own schools. They are also able to recruit and hire teachers on their own, and to give those teachers the leeway to teach the way they see fit.