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By Susan Engel

Amid the hype of Race to the head, on-line experiments akin to Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we appear to have drawn a line that leads from nursery university alongside a only fiscal path, with funds because the ultimate cease. yet what fee can we all pay for the more and more singular specialise in salary because the end result of schooling? Susan Engel, a number one psychologist and educator, argues that this fiscal framework has had a profound influence not just at the means we expect approximately schooling but in addition on what occurs within college buildings.

The finish of the Rainbow asks what might ensue if we replaced the implicit objective of schooling and imagines how various things will be if we made happiness, instead of funds, the commencement prize. Drawing on psychology, schooling thought, and a extensive diversity of lecture room studies around the kingdom, Engel bargains a desirable replacement view of what schooling may develop into: educating youngsters to learn books for excitement and self-expansion and inspiring collaboration. All of those new abilities, she argues, wouldn't basically domesticate destiny good fortune on the planet of labor but in addition could make society as a complete a greater, happier place.

Accessible to folks and academics alike, The finish of the Rainbow could be the starting of a brand new, extra shiny public dialog approximately what the way forward for American schooling may still glance like.

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