The article Rigor Redefined by Tony Wagner illustrates that students in the 21st century are falling behind in learning and basic skill children need to be successful in this modern, new aged world. One major detail that came to my attention when reading this article was that a lot of the skills that Mr. Wagner thinks the schooling system fails to teach us are skills that can't be taught in a class by using paper and a pencil. Skills like collaboration and leadership or curiosity and imagination can't be taught by giving a lecture or out of a textbook. Only 2 of the 7 skills that Mr. Wagner listed were skills that could be class room taught. These skills are skills that you learn in the real world, by doing. Schools can't teach us everything we need to know in life. In the article Mr. Wagner also uses examples of kids that makes it seem like all students can't focus in class or are just simply bad students, which is not true at all. School is here to give us the building blocks for life, not to build life for us.
