Kids (and adults) are not perfect. They make mistakes. They trip up. They recover and show resolve. And they invariably show how remarkable they are on a daily basis by enduring the gantlet of a traditional school setting, marching to the drumbeat of the industrial model of schooling, a model constructed around time, space, order, efficiency and acculturation.
Blogger Bruce Dixon quotes author Seth Godin, who writes about "learning from doing things wrong." There is a need for students to learn from wrongdoinginstead of demanding rightdoing from them all the time. Wrongdoing is where the good stuff is.
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