I believe that this same culture will consume those young people who emerge out into it without the skills and abilities that I am speaking of. The role of education today must go far beyond the disseminating of information, the collection of test scores and the learning of things. Education today more than ever must be about the making of people, and not just about what they know but who they are and what they will give to society not what they will get. I believe that this causes the modern day teacher to step outside of the traditional educational mold to be effective, because the children in our schools are challenging. They are so by virtue of what they can and cannot do.
Many students can challenge the standard because they have the support and the desire to do so.
These children will force us to be at our best technically all of the time. They will push the envelope in their quest for learning. On the other hand, many students will challenge the system rather than the standard because of the support that they lack and their desire to disrupt. We must teach them all, it is our job and our survival as an educated free society depends on it. This to me means that their cannot be one way for all and the thinking that this is the way it has always been done, has to go.