When I was a kid, the goal was to be smart. Not to get a lot done, because you can't easily test that.
As a parent I should focus on what's hard for schools to teach: imagination, initiative, independence.
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I have the better deal. Teaching imagination is a lot more fun than teaching times tables.
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When I was a kid (born early 80s) we were taught "work hard" not "be smart" - they taught me independence by accident ;)
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it is the care/love teachers give and teachers love for the subject that matters most in my experience
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IME children have lots of imagination, initiative and independence, the problem is how it is nurtured by schools, or suppressed.
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It's actually fairly easy to teach these skills through games like chess.
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I would add teaching resilience to that list an important life attitude. Some years back read a book 'raising resilient children'
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Ethics, perseverance, trust, the real world, the truth, how to handle setbacks, etc...
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I'd add curiosity, which catalyzes lots of other good things. Although it's probably modeled more than taught.
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Awesome thread! I'll add capacity to delay gratification to the list.
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"encouragement" is the key; so why is this difficult for schools to teach?
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