Expert says, "Learning is in the doing"

Bret found this article (click on title of this post to access the article) by Samuel Western in the September 11 Casper Star Tribune. Apparently Kurt Fisher, the Charles Bigelow professor of education at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, spoke to members of the Wyoming Board of Education the other day and had this (among other things) to say:

Brains cannot be directly filled with world knowledge. It's not just a matter of storage information. It's through action, through doing things. The standard view in brain-based education is that the brain learns to read. No. A child with a brain learns to read.

Shocking! (ha ha.) It will be interesting to see what the esteemed Wyoming BOE does with this information.