What is the Purpose of School?
This is a great question and one that was chatted about in one of my Voxer groups recently. This question stuck in my head and led me to this blog post. So I am grateful to my #LeadWild Voxer #PLN for bringing this up. It was actually quite timely as we have been, in slightly different words, grappling with this question at home as our son adjusts to 4th grade. Sometimes work and home align, and this is one of those times. Image Credit To begin to answer this question, I turned back to my "roots" so to speak, of a history teacher, and began with Socrates. Really, I could begin my quest in many places, but for me Socrates seemed an excellent starting point. During Socrates' time, Ancient Greece was a democracy of sorts. Citizens (read: free adult men) were expected to contribute in different ways to the running of society. For Socrates, he encouraged his students to seek the truth (this eventually will lead to his death). To se...