Review: If you're new to the topic of educational reform, this is a great book with easy-to-follow logic
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
The gistThe different people want a whole new mindset. We live in a world of knowledge abundance. What's the value of knowing a bunch of trivial details when anyone can Google those factoids on their smartphone?  This is also why tests that ask detail questions (anything that can be answered via Google) are silly. We don't need that trivia. We can look it up.What we need to be able to do is useful and creative things with the factoids we look up.So, teachers don't need to lecture and spit out information. Teachers don't need to deliver information. Teachers need to facilitate kids' learning. Teachers need to help kids discover, and to do this, teachers need to be learners first and teachers second.Teachers need to help kids discover whatever it is they need to become literate, by the modern definition.In SummaryWhy School? is a good read. If you don't know much about this new model of education, it's a great beginning. If you do know a bit about this model, it's probably not worth our time, unless you want to read it just to feel validated.