As a full-time education consultant, Allison Zmuda works with educators to grow ideas on how to make learning for students challenging, possible and worthy of the attempt. Over the past fifteen years, Zmuda has shared curricular, assessment, and instructional ideas, shown illustrative examples, and offered practical strategies of how to get started.
Why college? Why higher education?
Suli Breaks, a spoken word artist whose videos about school have garnered million of hits, addresses these questions in his video, Why I Hate School but Love Education.
He references Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others who have succeeded in achieving their dreams, but did not graduate from a higher institution. It is a powerful and provocative post worthy of discussion.
Are we cheating our kids by sending them to college to “make us proud?”