A Per­sonal Tour of Learning

“I’m not say­ing that my school­ing was worth­less, nor that there aren’t things that need to be taught. Absolutely not. I’m just say­ing that education’s job, in the 1950s and ’60s, was to pre­pare stu­dents for a future that was sta­tic and predictable.

I believe that we no longer live in those times. I believe that we need schools where stu­dents teach them­selves. We must assure that they become lit­er­ate, but that it is a lit­er­acy to learn — learn­ing lit­er­acy. We should assure that they are gain­ing a com­mon con­text for them­selves, who they are, what they are, where they are, when they are, and that they appre­ci­ate the ways that their envi­ron­ment impacts them and how they impact their envi­ron­ment — and that they learn these things through their devel­op­ing learn­ing lit­era­cies.” [2 Cents Worth]

Applic­a­ble to how we teach infor­ma­tion lit­er­acy, as well as how we teach in our library schools.