Roger Schank critiques those who focus on class size and test scores as indicators of school success. He believes schools fail because teachers teach subjects instead of teaching students to think. Thinking is a process common to all humans, and learning is an innate, goal-directed social process. Schank decries a one-size-fits-all curriculum because one size clearly does not fit all and drilling to fill kids’ heads with facts that may prepare them for a test, but little else is utterly meaningless.
Publications
Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools
Schank, Roger. (2011). Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools. Teachers College Press. ISBN 978 0 8077 5266 1.
Education Outrage
Read Roger Schank’s blog, Education Outrage
