Seth Godin is a marketeer and prolific generator of ideas. His blog often has interesting nuggets about education. The purpose of school is to….here’s his first ten of 27 answers. Any you would like to add? Remove? (My personal favorite is number 23 – sandwiched in between the sublimely lofty and the tongue-in-cheek – Minimize public spelling mistakes
So, here’s Seth Godin’s starter list. The purpose of school is to:
Go to his blog (amusing url too) to see the others on his list and let him know what you think of it.
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