Posts Tagged ‘Potential’
There’s No Telling What Your Kids Could Do
There’s no telling what your own kids could do. After a long life and 30 years in the public school trenches, I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women.
So says John Taylor Gatto in an Ode Magazine piece that laments the current educational system (emphasis mine).
People are wells of potential waiting to be realized. Anyone who has ever sat down and had a discussion with a child comes face to face with this fact at its most resplendent. Take a moment and think about the children in your life. They may be cousins, younger siblings, children, grandchildren, students, nieces or nephews. ”There’s no telling what your own kids could do”. Those words have a powerful ring to them!
