just to fit them in it. Children are all in school to learn, but we need to isolate why they are there and work from that.I believe schools are meant as simply places to give people a start in life, have them all reading, knowing simple mathematics, history and science. Schools to the 8th grade should be molds, everyone should be taught the same things, maybe not in the same way, but they should walk out knowing the same basics. High school however shouldn’t be for one and all; they should lead children in different directions according to the way they learn, their goals and their means. Gardner mentions that educators “…have not appreciated the strength of the initial conceptions…” and I agree, but it is impossible unless we had one on one schooling. Everyone has different conceptions of school and of learning, but we need to focus on those in high school when the knowledge base is set.Education needs to be focused on a simple goal in the early years, to set a universal base of knowledge and in the later years to focus on individual’s strengths. Not everyone will walk out knowing concrete knowledge but they should all walk out of school with the ability to think, reason and operate in today’s world. Schools of universal knowledge are simply asking to fail, no one can know everything, but everyone should know that everything is out there....
