It’s no secret that in this day of instant everything, society as a collective whole have lost a lot of patience. Jessica Lahey at The Atlantic talks about how an assignment from her son’s school made her realize the lack of patience in schools and society today.
“Access is not synonymous with learning. This is the line that leapt out at me, the line I’d love to see teachers run with as they apply professor Roberts’ view to the study of literature, science, and math. To teach students that answers don’t always come easily and require time to emerge from the noise.”
All is not lost, Lahey leaves us with the following:
“When I hand my students novels and other projects that require close analysis, critical thinking, and patience, I challenge them to rise above the the basic skills of word recognition and reading comprehension. I am asking them to wait. To keep reading, keep listening. To be patient and formulate their opinions based on all the evidence, and then comment on what they see and hear armed with more than a sound bite, a title, or a tweet. To spend the time and have the patience to do more than look at the world, but to see it. “
Read the rest here.
