MASKED THE PLAY

In relation to the issue of large hopes, Jean Piaget argued that the principal goal of education in the schools should be the creation of “men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done—men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers . . . who can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered” Thomas Jefferson expressed a similar view
about the purposes of public education and life in American society, the understanding that each generation must establish its own revolution. And one can’t read Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech without comprehending the same important point. Why shouldn’t the discourse in our schools be more consonant with such an inspiring spirit?

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