Happy Saturday everyone! I am hoping, today, to rejuvenate the discussion a little bit. Now that most of us are on summer break, please consider taking a few minutes to ponder on one or more of these questions and post! It takes more than one person to make a discussion...help me out a little! :-) On page 137 Ellin writes: " If we live in a society that values Renaissance thinking, but in schools that work against it, is it possible to help young children sustain and older kids rediscover the Renaissance person in themselves? Do all young children come to us with those qualities? Is it possible to devote time to the pursuit of pressing questions on a wide range of topics? Can we encourage kids to wonder, to pursue new ideas through their own discovery and research? And if we decide that it is important to promote the notion of Renaissance learners, where do we begin, given the constraints of our personal and professional lives?" I would love to hear everyone's reaction to these questions of Ellin's...and I will add one additional question... What are we doing in schools that causes children to lose their curiosity? Jennifer
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