{"id":7241,"date":"2018-02-19T01:53:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T01:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/19\/educating-for-the-future\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:00:43","slug":"educating-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/educating-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Educating for the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his homage to Henry Adams&#8217; book, <em>The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>, penned 100 years ago, Furman education professor Scott Henderson draws parallels to South Carolina&#8217;s education mission as outlined in the &#8220;Profile of a South Carolina Graduate.&#8221; One of the tenets of South Carolina&#8217;s vision is\u00a0\u201ccritical thinking and problem solving,&#8221; a skill set which stands in sharp contrast to the teaching practice Adams observed firsthand in Germany where he complained about the \u201carbitrary training of the memory.&#8221;\u00a0Said Henderson, who wrote an opinion piece for <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ux.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/02\/16\/opinion-educating-future\/314949002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, &#8220;We would do well to keep Adams\u2019s critique in mind. The relentless drumbeat of raising standardized test scores threatens to replace analytical skills with what Adams called the \u201cpitiable torture\u201d of memorization. Schools should produce problem solvers, not parrots.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The &#8220;Profile of a South Carolina Graduate&#8221; is sanctioned by the South Carolina Association of School Administrators (SCASA)\u00a0Superintendent\u2019s Roundtable\u00a0and\u00a0 the SC Chamber of Commerce.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his homage to Henry Adams&#8217; book, The Education of Henry Adams, penned 100 years ago, Furman education professor Scott Henderson draws parallels to South Carolina&#8217;s education mission as outlined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}