(2012-02-28) Godin Stop Stealing Dreams Education

Seth Godin has a new manifesto out on Educating Kids called StopStealingDreams. Free EBook in a variety of formats.

Update: Penelope Trunk thinks that Stop Stealing Dreams is his description of why Home-School-ing requires going through a Godin Dip, but he doesn’t want to do it. So instead of being a linchpin for homeschooing, Seth will be a naysayer. Seth is advocating the Status Quo: Lame-duck parent activists who delude themselves that their activism is meaningful. And people advocating for large-scale School Reform without any blueprint whatsoever for how to educate such a wide range of students on such a large scale. This discussion is parental escapism. No parent, not even Seth, will solve the school problem before their kids are out of school. Seth has kids. This book is his justification for not homeschooling his own kids... Un Schooled (UnSchooling) kids — who follow no curriculum — do better on the SAT than the majority of schooled kids. The SAT does not test what you’ve learned. Which means you don’t need to have curriculum based education to get into a good college. I could list stuff like this for ten pages. The point I want to drive home is that the education reform movement is so far past school reform that it’s ridiculous to waste our time talking about this topic.

Oct'2012: he's given a TED talk from it.