Interesting...getting more to follow this idea could be difficult. We seem to be stuck in a "results" driven world. Always told to beat the score, the next guy, or the record quota; everybody gets a participation trophy is bad enough, but learning for the sake of learning is ultimately the best way to truly function.
You might think that the "participation" trophy would have lessened the "results" approach. Why finish first, you get a trophy anyway? But it doesn't seem so. Perhaps, though, it has in the sense that you are suggesting. An approach that requires a student to work through failure to success, with less emphasis on grading, doesn't appeal to students who are satisfied by some any external reward, some mark of recognition. Has the easy "A" become the new college equivalent of the "participation" trophy. Or is any passing grade satisfactory as it puts you that closer to graduation, "which every knows" is why you are there in the first place.
One source is John Dewey's ideas about education and as you remember he was the chief influence on the Baker sisters that founded National College. And his work applies to all learning, that for him WAS all of life. The other folk expression has to do with horses and carts, I believe. Or in the modern vernacular, play the game and then study the tapes.
Interesting...getting more to follow this idea could be difficult. We seem to be stuck in a "results" driven world. Always told to beat the score, the next guy, or the record quota; everybody gets a participation trophy is bad enough, but learning for the sake of learning is ultimately the best way to truly function.
You might think that the "participation" trophy would have lessened the "results" approach. Why finish first, you get a trophy anyway? But it doesn't seem so. Perhaps, though, it has in the sense that you are suggesting. An approach that requires a student to work through failure to success, with less emphasis on grading, doesn't appeal to students who are satisfied by some any external reward, some mark of recognition. Has the easy "A" become the new college equivalent of the "participation" trophy. Or is any passing grade satisfactory as it puts you that closer to graduation, "which every knows" is why you are there in the first place.
Your three aspects could be applied to life in general, don't you think?
One source is John Dewey's ideas about education and as you remember he was the chief influence on the Baker sisters that founded National College. And his work applies to all learning, that for him WAS all of life. The other folk expression has to do with horses and carts, I believe. Or in the modern vernacular, play the game and then study the tapes.