In one of the chapters Mike Rose makes some interesting points on his thoughts regarding school:
-We spend much of our young lives in school, and a much longer stretch of our adult lives at work. And the two are intimately connected in that a primary justification for schooling is to secure a place in the economy.
-Ours is an economy built on information and high technology and requires a new kind of worker: creative, problem solving, skilled in collaboration and communication.
He goes on to further is argument on how we develop as people, using certain values. He questions the measures of IQ tests and if they truly solidify ones intelligence. Or, instead of what we learn through testing is least important then what we are actually taught through school- values. I couldn't agree more with this argument. I believe that the things we learn in school are definitely taught to us, but mostly not through academics. Friendship, time management, responsibility, respect, are all values that we learn from each other and experiences while being in school, and they make us who we are.
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