EDUC 1000 Chapter 25: ED EDUC- What is a Good School (Question 25)
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A good school is one that teaches students how to lead an examined life. Facilitates disciplined inquiry, careful reflection, social justice, and new understandings about topics that matter. A good is an inclusive community that is created from the diverse contributions and abilities of its members. Promotes the development of students who are able to ask as well as answer questions and to reflect and critique rather than to simply receive information. Helps students develop openness to others, to doubt and to inquire rather than take an unquestioned position and argue with arrogant certainty. Good school also teaches students to consider both individual benefit and the collective good. It"s a place where inquiry is a fierce debate, has persuasive arguments and pointed questions are the told of learning and understanding. Teaching isn"t defined as the ability to inform information to students, but the ability to ease inquiry and help students develop understanding about new ideas.
