Monday, May 28, 2012

The process of education

When we're copying someone else, we can simply watch what they do and then do it ourselves. And, in many cases, that's exactly the right thing to do. The reason that McDonalds and other franchises are so successful and that there are so many of them is because they have described exactly how to cook a burger, exactly how to clean the fryer, exactly when to clean the restrooms and so on. They've found a process that works and if you adhere to it, you will also be successful.

Our schools could benefit from learning a few things from McDonalds and turn education into more of a science and less of an art. The reason is that lots of people can successfully follow a script, but not many are successful artists.

In the same way that we don't want every car to be made by an artist (it would be incredibly expensive and would take another artist to maintain it), we don't need every classroom run by artists.

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