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(I totally teared up writing this. What did I do to have people like this in my life?)
I throw this onto a thread about accountability in education because I think we have profoundly fucked up in the way we think about this. The goal should be to create people like these. Smart, curious, passionate, loving, generous, how-can-I-possibly-deserve-you human beings
Is that what we’re doing? Does anyone think that’s what we’re doing?
How do we do that? *Can* we do that? I mean, I don’t know, but I just can’t imagine any time spent trying to answer those questions is wasted time Right? /end
Education is not going to create such people, and really no one knows how to do this. At the end of the day, people will be shaped mostly by their genes and the non-shared environment. The role of parents and school will be to not create any impediments (e.g., abuse, neglect).
Creating people like those begins and ends in the home — with the parents whose responsibility it is to instill those values into their children. There are a few kids who will turn out great despite their upbringing, and a few who will turn out troubled despite theirs.
But, by and large, how a child is raised is the overwhelmingly determinative factor in that child’s life outcomes.
And my suspicion is that schools increasingly both reflect and magnify the predilections and engagement levels of different types of parents, particularly as the proliferation of types of schools and educational modalities encourages more granular sorting and self selection.
To wit, exceptional parents will provide their children with an exceptional education, and average parents will provide their children with an average one.
And “exceptionality” doesn’t always so neatly correlate with what some would consider its proxy — socioeconomic status — as there are parents of means who send their children to technically outstanding schools but are otherwise completely disengaged in their kids’ education...
...and overall personal development, and other parents with far less that are making the sacrifice to ensure that their kids (or, kid) have access to the best education they can reasonably afford and are highly engaged in their children’s education and personal development.
It’s not hard to imagine that children of the latter group turn out far smarter and are more curious, compassionate, and loving than those of the former, despite receiving a less technically outstanding education.
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