Developing A Learner’s Identity; The Creative Step That Will Supercharge Your Life
A short description of the 21st Century’s foundational tools.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 88% of all the adults living in the U.S. today have completed high school. That’s 284,000,000 out of 322,000,000 people.
Naturally ndividual achievements here vary by age, sex, race, and ethnicity. But, this fact notwithstanding, it’s clear the vast majority of adults living in the United States have a high school diploma.
On the upside, this statistic is important because it suggests most adults have acquired the knowledge they need to make it through the day efficiently and effectively. They can read and write, they can drive themselves to work, and they can pay their bills. In short, they can manage their lives by themselves.
On the downside, this statistic is important because it suggests that between the ages of 4 to 18, most adults spent an average of 16,800 hours sitting in a classroom during their most formative years. In short, they were caught up in a traditional teacher-student relationship.
Research shows that what typically happened during to us during these 16,800 hours was thtath the teachers who were “teaching” quietly but insistently socialized us into using mindsets that told us whenever we…