The Artdog Quote of the Week
John Legend thinks schools should nurture all of children’s talents, and empower them to be creative.
Singer-songwriter and actor John Legend has had an amazing career, but he feels if he’d had an education that valued and nurtured his creative talents his life might have gone much better. If every child’s greatest potential could be activated and empowered, it seems reasonable to believe that poverty could decrease.
“We must break the long-held expectation that schools exist to mold and manage kids,” he said in a CNN interview. “In today’s world, expecting every child’s education to be the same, progress at the same rate and be measured against the same narrow standards of performances is not just outdated, it’s a disservice to young people and the educators who dedicate their lives to helping them.”
This month we’ll look at some of the ways innovative schools and educators are trying to break out of that old-fashioned paradigm.
IMAGE: Many thanks to A-Z Quotes, via Hippoquotes, for this image.