![]() I just didn’t do that well in school.Īnd so then when I went to high school, I ended up in the vocational track. o I could read, and that was immensely helpful, but I was horrible in mathematics I couldn’t diagram a sentence if you held a gun to my head. I could read, which was really fortunate, since that’s the sort of meta tool. I’ve got to say that it began, for me, in my senior year in high school. And you’re right, I wouldn’t have talked about it that way at the time. How would you start to tell the story of how and when you became attentive to what you would call the “spirit of education” - maybe you wouldn’t have called it that then, but what you now think of as the essence of education? His father was chronically ill, and his mother supported their family as a waitress. ![]() ![]() He grew up in Pennsylvania among Italian immigrants. He authored several books, including The Mind at Work and Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education. Mike Rose was a professor in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Tippett: I’m Krista Tippett, and this is On Being. You know, the miserable lawyer, the unhappy neurosurgeon, right? Meaningfulness is a more fluid and rich and variable concept, I think, than we tend to imagine. Mike Rose: You and I both know people who are doing work that the culture at large, from a distance, would say is really meaningful, and they’re miserable. culture, and the deepest meanings of intelligence and of vocation. His insights from our 2010 conversation, a conversation I cherished, offer much to enlarge our civic imagination on big subjects that are newly alive about the heart of who we are, including class dynamics we still scarcely know how to speak about in U.S. He argued with care and eloquence that we risk too narrow a view of the way the physical, the human, and the cognitive blend in all kinds of learning and in all kinds of labor. Yet the particular way he saw the world resonates more than ever before, as our debates about standardized testing, the information economy, and the future of school only intensify. This, then, is something I know: the thought it takes to do physical work.” Mike Rose died after a short illness, in August. Krista Tippett, host: Mike Rose once wrote this: “I grew up a witness to the intelligence of the waitress in motion, the reflective welder, the strategy of the guy on the assembly line.
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