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To represent the videos and readings we have read and viewed over the past couple of weeks I would sum it up by using the word education. I surrounded the center with main ideas or phrases that have affected or make-up education. Intelligence was the first word I put down. Five Minds for the Future is the five qualities of human intelligence in order to be successful. We need intelligence to go through education and be successful in life. The 5 Minds broke down what Gardner understood intelligence as. Diane also touched on intelligence and how every student has it, it's how you get them to reflect it. This also relates to Mike Rose on his perspective on who is considered intelligent. Based on your career and education, Rose explains how some are seen as less intelligent than others. In reality, each job has specific contributions and tasks that are very challenging, even though for some reason the job is seen as less. This relates to the other main idea I put down: Community. Mike Rose, the Respectful Mind, and Diane all touch on the importance of acceptance and social class. We as students and the education system have placed others at an automatic disadvantage just because of the way someone may have grown up.  We associated and limited them as being less intelligent. This has sabotaged their educational path from the beginning. The Respectful Mind from Gardner tells us we need to acknowledge and value differences. This helped me get to my next main idea of limitation. Rose mentions how we have created a bias in our heads and that has caused us to limit ourselves and others. Diane showed us that grades and denying failure in the education system have limited learning. Failure is what leads us to grow and we need to rethink that in the education system. Also teaching styles can limit us if kids aren't being helped, or taught the way that has their best interest. Lastly, I used the word Circulum. What, who, and how we are being taught has a huge effect on students and has been a big debate. The 5 minds tell us what should be practiced in our learning environment to be successful. Rose and Diane tell us about the changes that need to happen within the curriculum, like experiential learning, to help and challenge kids to be successful.

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I decided to break my mind map into the three people/theories that we have been studying, Mike Rose, Diana L, and the 5 minds. I have drawn several conclusions between the three educational frameworks where they agree with one another. One example is how the creative mind interacts nicely with Diana's thought that not everything needs to be correct or right, and that allowing kids to fail is important for their learning. I also connected some of Mike Rose's basic concepts of his belief system when it comes to education and those are curiosity and listening, 2 things that Diana also highlighted during her TedTalk. We also see that Mike Rose and the 5 minds agree with one another with the disciplined mine. Mike Rose stated that people are able to comprehend that they can improve their lives with their knowledge and this relates heavily to discipline. Although not everything overlaps, there are certainly many areas where these frameworks do, and those are the key components that I think are crucial when understanding how to improve our mindsets when it comes to education, such as valuing creativity and encouraging self discipline.

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This mind map represents the aspects that I saw throughout Diane Laufenberg's video, Mike Rose's video, and in Howard Gardner's book Five Minds for the Future. All three were centered around education and how your community,  limitations and social standards, and intelligence and curriculum really impact education. All of these topics are connected to the broader education and all three people believe that it is our job to create an education for all.
For intelligence and curriculum Howard Gardner believed that a person needed to have five minds to succeed. One of these minds brought in outside experience and helped synthesize it for better understanding. Diane Laufenberg and Mike Rose expanded this idea by stating that failure and outside experience are the bases of learning and education. Along the note of failure many immigrants and poorer families don't get the education they deserve according to Mike Rose because failure is seen as unintelligence. In reality this concept is more socially driven because of these families circumstances than it is intellectual at all. Finally Diane and Mike both agree that standardized tests are not a helpful way to learn. Instead they hinder many students ability to get the education they deserve because they are made for one population and if you fail the test it shows your intelligence isn't the best even when you are in fact very intelligent.

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To summarize the readings, videos, and weekly takeaways, it is the growth of education. I broke down the growth of education into three categories when looking over the material given so far I was able to come up with these categories that combine the material and point out key aspects. The three categories I chose are intelligence, schooling/education, and community. By coming up with these three categories, I can make subcategories that are created off on the material. I noticed that Mike Rose, Dianna Laufenberg, Gardener, and other sources have similar ideas when it comes to intelligence, schooling/education, and community but they also have ideas that contradict each other. For example, how do we measure learning? A popular method is testing. Dianna believes that having tests tells students that are only right and wrong answers which do not allow students to learn and make mistakes because they are focused on trying to come up with the correct answer. When other sources state that tests are the only true way to test knowledge and if you are not knowledgeable then you will not have a successful future ahead. But there are different types of knowledge like book smarts and street smarts, which depend on the job either type of intelligence will be needed. Leading to Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence which contradicted the importance of IQ tests. His theory inspired new teaching techniques like the ones Dianna used with her students.

When I write my paper I plan to compare the similarities and differences between each source that falls into each of the categories I created. When comparing, I also plan to show how ideas relating to education changed over time, from when schools are created to present-day education. To highlight one idea I will be talking about, the idea regarding curriculum changed over time. The Merrow report points out how public schools were teaching children the basics like reading, writing, and arithmetic when private schools taught boys how to work in a factory and on a farm, and girls how to take care of a home with tasks of cooking and cleaning. To jump to the present day, all information we need is accessible through any device that has the internet which creates the challenge of how and what we do teach now that the internet exists.

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Over the past four weeks, we have read and viewed many important chapters and videos regarding education. Therefore, the overarching word that connects to every individual point is education. Branching off from that, I chose to include the three individuals we studied and defined education in their own, important ways. From those three individuals, I chose to look at the topics I found most important from each. Gardner’s Five Minds for the Future categorizes the unique ways our minds work. According to Gardner, each of these minds are crucial for the future. The disciplined mind has a specific scholarly discipline, craft, or profession and marches to his own tune. For example, the creating mind puts forth new ideas, poses unfamiliar questions, creates a new way of thinking, and arrives at unexpected answers. The respectful mind welcomes differences between individuals and groups, tries to understand everyone, and works effectively with them. Therefore, I connected the respectful mind to Mike Rose’s ideas of assets and deficits. The respectful mind is able to welcome all differences including race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, ableness, and others. Each of these factors influences our limitations, our intelligence, our expectations, our future, and so much more. When considering all of these different elements that make up our education, Diane Laufenberg’s idea is that it is essential for children to learn from their mistakes. In doing so, we show students that is ok to be wrong and that we can learn from our mistakes. Therefore, I connected her ideas to the creating mind, which tells us that unique thinking answers unexpected questions. For example, sitting a child down and making them take a test eliminates any and all thought processes for creativity and curiosity. Each of these individuals is considering the best ways in which children learn and how they can be their best possible selves.

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Within the first few weeks of this course, we have exposed to many different ideologies when it comes to education. Many of these theories and frameworks overlap on the import topics. I chose to focus on the expectations of education, methods of education, intelligence in contrast to education, and society’s influence on education. While these topics seem secular, there is a lot of crossovers in the questions they pose on our educational system.

The expectations of education are set in many ways by society, measured intelligence, and methods of learning. Your outcome of education can be very different depending on the goals you have for education and the goals education has for you. Intelligence, often determined by quantifiable measures, subjective testing, and ranked performance, is generally determined early on, and defines all future educational experiences. There are inherent expectations that not only is your education applicable for future use, but also positively correlated with future wealth. Society is a large factor in shaping these expectations through de facto segregation of social class resulting in resource inequality.

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I think Gardner, Rose, and Laufenberg come together to embody what education is all about. The overall theme that I chose to convey this was Mindsets Within Education. Although all three came from different points of view, the main takeaway after reading and watching the assigned YouTube Videos was their perspective and approach within education.

We see Gardner with his specific breakdowns of his 5 minds for the future. He is really emphasizing looking at the complete picture in order to evolve with the times and excel. He also includes how the influence of teachers, peers, parents and media affect our education and mindset. This compliments Rose's outlook on education nicely. Rose really displays the importance of mentors and support systems in our lives to help inspire and push us in our educational journey. We are often labeled by the classes we are put into and the self-doubt that can cause. Kids from poorer neighborhoods or these "lower level class" are often told they aren't good enough so they become indifferent. In reality, they just need a little extra work and to know that everyone reaches their goals differently. This is where Laufenberg's idea of experiential learning and viewing failure as stepping stones in the learning process is so important and ties everything together. At the end of the day like she says we need to learn for ourselves in ways that are authentic to who we are.

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When I was creating my mind map, I had ideas relating to all of the videos and readings we have gone over in the last couple weeks. The center of the map is education, and the main two points coming off of it are society and schooling. I picked these two subjects because I believe they are the biggest influences in a child's education. Regardless of where someone grows up, society plays a monumental part in someone's life. Depending on the social class one was born into, or currently lives in, there are a lot of things that someone may or may not have access to. For example, if someone grew up with money, they may have access to wireless internet, laptops, traveling, and other opportunities that someone who does not have money may lack. They may not be able to go onto higher education like someone with money would be able to. All of these things would allow someone to have a better chance at getting a better job that would generate a lot of income, therefore allowing them more opportunity in the future. This goes hand in hand with the expectation part of the map. Society expects that people work good jobs and make good money in order to contribute to their communities. While this is attainable for most, some people are not born into situations where they can reach their full potential or do things that they really want to do. To go with that, a good job does not fall into any certain category. As Mike Rose said, blue collar and hands on jobs are just as valid as something like working in medicine or a job that takes years of schooling to become. Working hard for what you have by getting your hands dirty should be way more respected than it is now. People who are passionate about what they do, regardless of what they make, are usually the happiest people anyway.

The second branch of the map is schooling. Curriculum is obviously important to insure that students are learning and practicing all they need to in order to pass onto the next grade. Math, Science, History, etc knowledge is important, but different experiences outside of the classroom are equally as important. Diana Laufenberg mentioned bringing her students on field trips in order to learn more about the world than what the curriculum of the school offers and that is so important. She taught her students about politics and what it means to be an educated voter, something most students would not learn in the classroom. I think that these kinds of learning experiences are crucial to preparing students for the real world. With that being said, educators play a huge role in shaping children as well. Someone like Laufenberg who is willing to go about teaching in a more abstract way is who we need more of. Educators are people who students learn from and can be role models to them as well. Teachers and administrators have a lot of influence over the minds of students, especially younger ones, which makes them very powerful. Relating to the five minds for the future, I think that educators can play a really big role in the creativity of their students. Laufenberg gave assignments that left interpretation up to her students, and this is where creativity can be explored and displayed. If kids are given more opportunities to think for themselves and do things in their own ways, maybe they would be more inclined to thinking for themselves when they become adults, instead of following what other people tell and expect them to do.

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Throughout the modules thus far we have focused on three different perspectives/sources in relation to education. These people are known as Mike Rose, Diane Laufenberg, and Howard Gardner so these are the main points I wanted to focus on stemming from education. Gardner has a theory regarding our minds which are disciplined, synthesizing, respectful, creating, and ethical mind. Rose would be favorable of Gardner’s minds of disciplined and synthesizing mind. Gardner’s disciplined mind is obtaining basic knowledge and Rose believes that the real power of the mind is building a knowledge base, so this is where the connection lies. Gardner believes that the synthesizing mind is processing, understanding, and evaluating information to make sense of it. Rose believes that the knowledge base created is used to help solve problems which connect to Gardner’s idea of the synthesizing mind.

Rose believes students that have an abundance of failure have potential that is not seen. Relating to Laufenberg’s belief of embracing failure, failure is instructional. It allows students to have a productive experience by failing and learning on their own how to improve in the future. Rose also touched on how there is a stigma in the social class that poor people are viewed differently in intellectual, character, and use of language. Rose believes that poor/disfranchised groups in society have not been given opportunities or chances to prosper and we must figure out how to include them in our society fairly. Laufenberg touched on the subject of experiential learning because she believes students will show up and be present when they have direct experience in the real world. It provides the opportunity for students to have interactive and personal assignments to develop their own revelations.

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In creating a mind map, I chose to separate it into the ideas of the three people, Diana Laufenberg, Howard Gardner, and Mike Rose.  Once created, it was evident that they each had separate ideas, however, many overlapped. For example, Gardner’s creating mind was similar to Laufenberg’s idea that we need to give students room to be creative in the education system. It is important to challenge children with challenging questions and allow them to create new ways of thinking. In addition to the creating mind, the ethical mind also had overlapping ideas. The ethical mind ponders the nature of one’s work and the needs and desires of the society. Basically stating that it is important to adjust things based on needs which is exactly what Diana Laufenberg did with her students. She changed the way she taught material from year 1 to year 2 to adjust to the educational needs and wants of her students. Gardner’s synthesizing mind is similar to Rose’s idea that children are curious and it is important for them to be able to take information from multiple disciplines. I also noticed that both Rose and Laufenberg stressed the importance of not labeling children and letting them be whatever students that they are.

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Based on our past modules and diving deeper down into the significance of the four big topics that personally stands out to me were educators, curriculum, expectations, and social class. Reflecting back on Diane Laufenberg’s video, Mike Rose’s video, and the book Five Minds all of these sources had allowed me to see the overall connection of creating a better education.

The reasons behind why I picked the four topics I did was because social class has a positive contribution to a student/child’s academic accomplishments as well as highlighting the different values and beliefs of each student, which at times can be a struggle for them. Curriculum, determines the students ability to learn and work on having a god understanding of the foundation/basics to be able to “advance” to other levels and move onto the next grade level. Educators, are the backbone to education. Meaning they have to have a positive attitude, good communication and listening skills, collaboration, empathy, patience, and ability to adapt to the diversity in the classroom while trying to create a fun and comfortable learning environment for students. As well as they have to be flexible in order to plan and prepare lessons/curriculum to be taught to students that can either have the same or different learning techniques. Finally, expectations are predictions made my teachers/educators that allow them to set goals for future academic techniques and accomplishments for students. However, maintaining the understanding of student capability and actions to meet those beliefs a teacher/educator acquires; therefore it challenges and motivates students to have good work ethic and values towards wanting to be successful.

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Based on the readings and multiple videos we have received the past couple weeks the best way I could describe it all as a whole was education. I also chose 4 main points, expectations, intelligence, future and social class. With expectations I notices in the many different readings every parent, teacher and student all usually have different expectations when it comes to education. From either who makes decisions, the parent to teacher all the way down to the curriculum and what is being taught to these children. Also based on the 5 Minds for the Future intelligence was a main focus. Like the video explained based on whatever job students end up with their intelligence is judges, for example blue collar workers and what qualities consider a student to be intelligent overall. Then social class, this is a very important topic in my opinion. Not every family and child is on an even playing field, some have more access to help and quality education over others. Also the beliefs amongst the community and between families can be very conflicting and different. Lastly the future, the ability to take past education systems and techniques and adjust them for future students is a great opportunity. Changes in the education system like experimental learning can help students to be overall more successful in the future.

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For my mind map, I considered the readings,  viewings, and discussions from previous weeks. A common trend I noticed was how we, as future teachers, are responsible to change the education system for the better. So, for the focus of my mind map, I decided on "Why We Should Adapt the Current Education System". I used four topics to give reasoning behind the big idea.

Human intelligence, legitimation, teaching strategies, and globalization were the four topics used to support the change. Human intelligence was a large topic and in many cases we looked into, education systems fail to recognize what intelligence actually is and its many forms. I also chose to use legitimation, which is very important today. Many norms associated with education surround the less privileged, as they are pushed aside and not given the help for their full potential to bloom. Teaching strategies was a topic I included do to the fact that educators are starting to recognize how students actually learn, opposed to how they used to think learning took place. Lastly, I used globalization. As we prepare children for the world, we need to recognize how to do so, as they are the future and they are, or will be, in our hands.

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For my mindmap, I wanted to focus on the ideologies for education. The three people we have discussed so far are Howard Gardner, Diana Laufenberg, and Mike Rose. In my opinion, all of their views on the framework of education go hand in hand with one another.
I wanted to show how many of the ideologies all connect with the point that ideologies of education should constantly be changing.
For example, the blue arrows that I have added show the connections between the three. All three of them are surrounded around the idea that we need innovative learning. They all emphasize that students all learn and progress differently, therefore the "standard" educational framework we have in place now, may not work for all students. Experimental learning/ teaching was mentioned by all of them as well, and in order for that to happen they all also focus on the students. The chart shows that Gardner focuses on a disciplined mind where students are persistent in finding ways to better their education. This connects with Laufenberg's and Rose's idea of listening to the student body to find out ways to be innovative.

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Based on the past 3 modules I decided to chose the word education for the middle of my Mind map. I also chose 4 main points to go off the education topic which are expectations, intelligence, curriculum and future.

The two most important in my opinion are expectations and future. Everyone sets expectations, from the educators, to parents, and students. But there are so many outside factors that effect the success of the students future. The main focus of the 5 Minds was future intelligence. The video explained that whatever job a student ends up having is a measure of intelligence. There is no full proof way to judge intelligence because people are intelligent in different ways. I also chose curriculum which is important because the curriculum is what students are learning in school. The quality of a curriculum can vary in different areas based on many factors. Which raises a problem because that may effect the students ability to apply what they have learned in the real world, and effect their future careers.

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I decided to do my mind map and focus on the people that we learned about and their ideas. These mindsets have been a good topic of discussion for me personally. While Gardener, Rose, and Laufenberg all have different ideas about the future of education there are many similarities. I find that Gardener and Rose have similar ideas about learning from others and working with others which can lead to opportunities to learn from one another. I also found similarities among all 3 ideas. The general idea of learning from mistakes and others is so important for education. We should all be encouraged to not be perfect and make mistakes because that is when we learn the most. This idea is touched upon in Gardner’s and Rose’s ideas, but this is Laufenebrgs’s main idea in her ted talk. I also noticed a similarity between Gardner’s creating mind and Laufenberg’s idea that failure is important to education because we have to not only make mistakes, but we also have to think about how we can improve from that and do better next time.

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Based on our past modules, I believe that we have touched on many important topics, but more specifically, four topics, or categories stood out to me. These were expectations, intelligence, the general public, and curriculum.

To me, the topic of expectations is the most important because in everything we have read, there are set expectations by both the author and the readers. There is an expectation set that children will receive a good quality education. There is an expectation set that a certain group will make the decisions on a child’s education, where they are educated, how they are educated, where they will end up, and what occupation they should be in. In the readings, these have all varied. In subcategories, I put some questions that we have pondered in these readings and videos. Specifically, who oversees your education? Who should it be? We have stated in previously modules our opinion on this, but this question has caused a huge debate. Another question I asked was “Is what you are learning imperative?” Meaning, are we being taught things that we can use in real-life and if so, how will we apply what we have learned? Lastly, my third comment or subcategory was that receiving a good education equals or allows you to have a good job.

Regarding intelligence, we read about this in Gardner’s 5 minds and in the video of Mike Rose. Diane’s Ted Talk also included this topic. Gardner’s 5 minds explained how the mind divides itself up and breaks down into different parts of intelligence. Mike Rose describes what makes an individual intelligent and how it can be outside the box. Diane describes the role of inquisitiveness in intelligence. Based on Mike Rose’s interview, one of my bubbles was labeled: job qualifications. For example, when he described the job qualifications of the carpenter, like mathematics. Other questions I posed were: Are you smart? How do we test for intelligence? Diane described that being intelligent is not just based on IQ scores or assessments, but rather how we teach and challenge kids to develop more overall.

The General Public dictates the future of our children. They dictate the future of our community. As Gardner stated, we need to be accepting of everyone’s way of learning and respectful of our community. More specifically, we need to understand the role social class plays in education. I talked about this in a previous module. Students who go to school in places like Greenwich, are more likely to have a better education than students who go to school in Hamden, purely based on social class. It is unfortunate that social class plays such a role. This also goes into my other bubble labeled education inequity, which is still a huge topic present day.

My final topic was curriculum. Who is teaching you? What are they teaching you? How can what you are being taught be used? Can you take what you learned and apply it? In Gardner’s 5 Minds, he discusses synthesizing material that you have learned or skills that you have mastered. Diane discusses how we need to participate in pragmatic learning. Mike Rose discusses how we need to defy the basic principles of intelligence and basic disciplines.

Overall, I believe that we have the ability to change the education system and provide more pragmatic, experiential learning. I believe that this will empower children to develop into their most successful selves.

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The word I chose to represent the videos and readings that we have done over the past few weeks would be education. To surround the word education, I have chosen four different words that I think make up education and the ideas behind it. The first word I chose was intelligence. Intelligence is one of the main things that makes up and backs up education. In The 5 minds, Gardner touched on their own understanding of intelligence and intelligence within students. There are a million different ways to be intelligent or considered intelligent and which was talked about by Mike Rose. Everyone is going to be intelligent in their own ways. Another word I surrounded around education was society because society plays a big role in education. Diane, The Respectful Mind, as well as Mike Rose all talked about community and society. They all talked about social class and that it may affect education for certain people within those social classes. With those social classes there is an inequality, and those people are often looked down upon. Next, I used the word curriculum. Education is based upon the curriculum students are being taught. Rose and Diane talked about the curriculum and what we can change to positively affect the outcome of the student because the student is the future or the world. Finally, I used the word expectation. Expectation has been talked about in everything we have read. There is an expectation of the standards of what these schools teach the students because there is an expectation that they will move onto higher qualities of education and then eventually a job.

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I made my mind map off of the people we've been learning about these past couple weeks. These people not only expressed their different opinions but showed me there's many ways to look at education. These authors have great minds and express themselves clearly. One of Diane's points that stands out to me is embracing the students' voice. The reason that point stands out to me is because the learning system isn't just about teaching but it's also about understanding what students feel is helpful and not working for them. Gardeners points are also very clear and straightforward and one that stands out to me is having a creative mind. The reason having a creative mind is important to me is because then we wouldn't have people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs or even Picassos so that point is really powerful for me. Lastly we Mike Rose who really helped me see the brilliance in pushing yourself and prioritizing yourself. As an athlete i feel like there's no one that can push you to do anything you dont want so finding that fire and self discipline to push yourself is huge, Especially in a school perspective because a lot of students don't like school so for them to push themselves can show a lot of courage to the outside world and to themselves.

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The first connection I noticed among the five texts is a shared belief that education should consist of supportive teachers and resources for students. As stated in “The Merrow Report,” the nation must provide free education that is of value to the public. With this, Mike Rose’s descriptions of the teachers who assisted him through school in Lives on the Boundary highlight the importance of a teacher's impact for a student’s success. Another way these texts relate is through the idea that education must help underprivileged students who face challenges in school. In Gardner’s words in Five Minds For The Future, it is “not possible to thrive when there are the poor and frustrated.” In To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy by Melissa Moschella, the power of the government to care for its children is shown by providing education that creates an equal opportunity for students. A third connection made between these texts is a curriculum’s ability to tap into a student's skills. For instance, Diane Laufenberg’s Ted Talk “How to Learn From Mistakes” illustrates the positive effect of experiential learning since it allows students to demonstrate their knowledge in various ways. In “The Merrow Report,” this same concept is marked by John Dewey who believes that schooling should allow students to learn concepts that they are interested in and serve as tools to display their knowledge.

A fourth connection between the readings is the authors’ motivation to improve the educational system for future generations. As Mike Rose points out in Lives on the Boundary, current practices within schools cause students to fall through the cracks and harm their learning. One recommendation made by Diane Laufenberg in “How to Learn From Mistakes” is to allow students to fail, something that is not afforded through the current culture of test-taking and competition. A fifth connection within the texts is the importance placed on a student’s creativity. In Gardner’s Five Minds For The Future, the Creative Mind aims at forming fresh ways of thinking and alternate solutions when problem-solving. Diane Laufenberg supports creativity in education when she describes ways for students to spread their voices through innovative projects and ways of learning. The final connection between these texts regards how previous knowledge informs each author’s opinions and judgments on the topic. For example, Gardner uses his knowledge of the history of education and his psychology background to better inform his recommendations for how to improve society. In addition, Mike Rose uses his early experiences to inform his perspective on the goals for education and his teachings. Overall, these texts discuss the most vital factors of school and describe ways to improve the educational system in the future.