Glenn Kelman writes:
For all the information schools impart, most are not very successful at raising students’ IQs, but many schools are very good at making their students more disciplined. And self-discipline, it turns out, is the only way to get through life in one piece; it is the trait most consistently correlated with life success.
Read more at What Victorians got right about school, and Silicon Valley has wrong – Quartz.
As a parent I wonder what is the best way to equip our young to survive the future. I believe our brains are wired some where on a line with dreamer at one end and ploders at the other. As one of lifes dreamers I can say that school taught me to read and write , but little else that prepared me for adult hood. The young today are faced with shrinking expectations and a world that is full of out sourcing and automation. So pahaps the best we can do for them , is provide support , ecouragement , and a belief in there own ability to cope with a rapidly changing world..