The Tony Wagner article Rigor Redefined shows that many schools these days are not teaching students the basic skills need to survive the shark infested waters of the business world. How to question, communication skills and, the ability to think are all characteristics that seemed to have jumped our generation. There are many things that can be blamed for this. Technology, like Facebook, texting, and Twitter make it so we don’t need to talk to people in person any more. Although technology is only thing we can blame it on, I believe another reason is the classroom environment has become more lecturing from teachers instead of the kids talking. I think our class does an amazing job of getting everybody’s opinion into the conversation and giving everyone the option to talk. This year I have learned to learn for myself, instead of being told what to learn. Sure sometimes I was wrong, but those times I was wrong helped me learn. If you learn from your mistakes you won’t commit them again. After looking through the seven characteristics a person should have to be successful I realized that most the people in our school have a grand total of about 4 of the 7. If we can make that statistic 7 out 7 I believe that we will be the most qualified workers in the business world in the next couple years.
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