Preparing Students to Be Creators of Knowledge - National Council of Teachers of English
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Preparing Students to Be Creators of Knowledge

“How do you prepare students to be inhabitants of a scientist’s world, a historian’s world, or a legislator’s world? How do you prepare them to be creators of knowledge? Adopting some of the fundamental practices of the people who actually do the work of scientists, historians, and legislators in the real world seems like a good place to start.”

Entering the Conversations by Patricia Lambert Stock, Trace Schillinger, and Andrew Stock

This is clearly a philosophy shared in this video clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson: