{"id":872,"date":"2015-11-10T20:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilms.cloudapp.net\/itutorsoft\/?p=872"},"modified":"2015-11-10T20:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:51:19","slug":"a-venture-capitalist-searches-for-the-purpose-of-school-heres-what-he-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/a-venture-capitalist-searches-for-the-purpose-of-school-heres-what-he-found\/","title":{"rendered":"A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here\u2019s what he found."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maybe, in the end, the purpose of school is to help our kids find their <em>own<\/em> sense of purpose. To prepare them for a life where they can set, and achieve, their own goals, not grind away to meet the needs of some bureaucrat or college admissions officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/answer-sheet\/wp\/2015\/11\/03\/a-venture-capitalist-searches-for-the-purpose-of-school-heres-what-he-found\/?postshare=9391447084858062\">the full text of the paper <\/a>with a lot of interesting comments.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this is the ultimate purpose of our platform: to help learners to learn, perform, plan and design different (societal, organizational, professional, learning) activities in their purposeful connection by themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist David Brooks <a href=\"http:\/\/%3Ciframe%20src=%22https:\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122502930%22%20width=%22500%22%20height=%22281%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C\/iframe%3E\">wrote about<\/a> the Sundance-selection \u201cMost Likely To Succeed\u201d film, positing that the ultimate goal of school is to erect \u201ccathedrals of knowledge and wisdom . . . based on the foundations of factual acquisition and cultural literacy.\u201d He probably meant the same.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Maybe, in the end, the purpose of school is to help our kids find their own sense of purpose. To prepare them for a life where they can set, and achieve, their own goals, not grind away to meet the needs of some bureaucrat or college admissions officer.&#8221; Here is the full text of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/a-venture-capitalist-searches-for-the-purpose-of-school-heres-what-he-found\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A venture capitalist searches for the purpose of school. Here\u2019s what he found.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itutorsoft.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}