People, Not Products

11/09/2009

You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marion Wright Edelman

At the close of the 2008 Working Forum for Teacher Educators in Auckland, New Zealand, Colin Gibbs made a summing-up presentation, "Future directions for EC education: 10 concerns." His presentation has been reprinted in the November issue of Exchange and can be viewed at www.ChildCareExchange.com. One of the concerns Gibbs addressed, was "...about producing products rather than nurturing people." He observed....

"What we emphasize in education is generally what we get. When we emphasize achievement above all else, then we are likely to produce achievement above all else. High achievement is desirable. But at what cost? When education becomes focused on production — namely, evidence of demonstrable achievement — then we have lost what it means to be educated. Teaching and learning are not just about achievement or quality-assured products. They are about care, compassion, love, hope, joy, passion, grace, relationship, and more. They are about people and how we nurture and are nurtured on our learning journeys."

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