Mr. Winke Wakes

Matthew Needleman puts a new spin on the classic Rip Van Winkle. He shows us that if you take a look around us, not much has been unchanged by technology. Businesses no longer rely on the single bookkeeper in a quiet office, they have multiple employees all over the world. Keep in mind that when televisions were first invented, most people could not afford one. Today, many families have 3 or more t.v.'s in their home. The first cell phone used weighed 30 ounces; today, they weigh somewhere around 3 ounces! And the medical field continues to advance daily.

The one area that has failed to change with the times is education. We still expect students to sit obediently and listen while we try to drill into them things that may or may not help them to succeed in life. We do not try new techniques, and we expect the students to be eager to learn in this boring environment. When will we wake up and realize that education should not be 'one size fits all'?