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Brady, Marion – Educational Leadership, 2008
This article discusses a case for teaching a kind of knowledge that is not in textbooks. The author calls on education leaders to take a crucial step toward getting students to use higher-order thinking skills by drawing a sharp line between firsthand and secondhand knowledge. The best way to do this is to focus attention directly on some part of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Memorization, Rote Learning, Educational Change