Dan Pink: How Teachers Can Sell Love of Learning to Students

CAT Tracks Editor's Note:

I could write volumes about the alternate "Pink" universe.

But, the bottom line lies in the identification of Dan Pink as a board member of "Big Pictures Schools"...

...yet another critic of public education, "selling" a money-making scheme, not to mention his new book.

It's not about education, it's all about the money.

Speaking of money, it was interesting to see Mr. Pink characterize standardized testing as "cheap". Guess all those folks who have been lamenting the billions that public schools are having to spend on testing and test-prep were mistaken. I mean...who are they to believe? Dan Pink, or their lying eyes?

Oh well, as I said at the beginning, I could go on and on and on.

One last observation...

All this BS put forward by education reformers (including Dan Pink) about the need to remake public education to produce big thinkers...

...rather than fact memorizers or formula applicators?

Well, hell, you can't become a big thinker until your have the raw materials with which to think. The ed reformers are wanting to put the cart ahead of the horse. Last I heard, that approach doesn't work very well.

Barack Obama, Arne Duncan et al and their spiel to provide a college-ready populace?

Looking at the trend in employment/unemployment of college graduates...

...maybe there should be more of an effort to create college level jobs...

...or stem the exodus of such jobs to our global competitors.

The public education system always has and always will produce the "big thinkers". Big thinkers will find a way, that's why they are the big thinkers. Classic example: Bill "Gazillionaire" Gates (who now wreaks havoc upon the system that allowed him to thrive.)

Creating an education system that appeals to Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Steve Jobs et al will leave millions and millions of average and below-average kids behind!

Plus...

If we were successful in this approach, then all those future "big thinkers" would be common, not rare.

Economics 101 - Supply & Demand - tells us that the next Bill, Mark, or Steve would be lowly millionaires...

...unable to rule the world like they do now.

Hmmm...