Conversation

There are many things that we can change and of the features that Eisner describes, I find the idea of increasing individual differences quite interesting. I believe it is important to give students an understanding of a broad range of disciplines however, in doing so, are we holding the “ideal that all students get to the same destinations at the same time.” Are our schools systems designed to give students enough freedom in designing their own path or would we have to develop or alter plans to allow for this?

I felt a little overwhelmed by the number of suggestions Eisner makes in his article however, I feel he concluded it nicely by saying that the features he describes would not be easy to attain. I feel that the most important part of the article was what Eisner presented in the final paragraph where he offers to us an invitation to “begin that conversation in your school, so that out of the collective wisdom of each of our communities can come a vision of education that our children deserve and, through that vision, the creation of the kind of schools that our children need.”