“ High school really needs to be reinvented in many ways,” he said. “For the most part, it is not effective enough. There needs to be more inquiry and discovery learning and fewer lectures.
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Two Neighbors Create a New High School for Greenwich Village - NYTimes.com
I do not personally believe that lecture dissuades learning and inquiry, but most lecture does not make place for it. A lecture can be structured in a way that encourages those moments of skepticism, but it’s not as easy as assigning a project.
