Thread by @therealjohntan

If you don't think the education system is broken, read these 10 tweets

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How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into a setting where they are organized by age, into grades, and forced to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 12 + years? @anafabrega11

This is sad, but most kids are preparing for jobs that will be irrelevant in the future. - @vladstan

Children are quite literally the future.

We don’t take them seriously but we also don’t let them be kids—an unfortunate and unproductive middle ground. - @julianweisser

We've been conditioned to believe that kids are only capable of cognitive development at roughly the pace of a standard K-12 education. This myth is relatively new — it's only been around for the last ~80 years — and we'll soon leave it behind us. - @delk

Homeschooling showed me you can teach the K-5 math curriculum to a 6 year old in six weeks with 1 hour of instruction per day - @wesyang.

Our K-12 education system offers few opportunities for students to develop critical thinking skills. And this won’t change until teachers give kids more autonomy by empowering them with self-run projects. - @EstherWojcicki

Test scores are data. A student’s digital portfolio is evidence. The first is a snapshot; the second is a movie. Both tell us something. But the latter is actually more reliable, though it requires collective human judgement, rather than a computer, to acccess @DrTonyWagner

Self-directed learning is the North Star of education. The goal of the educational process is to produce self-directed, life-long learners. - @gschoeniger

Considering the impact of decisions to shape our lives, it is remarkable we spend so little time in school preparing kids to make good ones. - @chrismanfrank

The education industry is stuck optimizing a broken system. We can’t incrementally innovate our way out of this hole. - @gw_smiles

Schools are doing a terrible job of preparing kids for the future. Follow me to read about reinventing education.