Milton Chen shares an example from Roger Nichols about trying to learn to play basketball with a textbook - it is quite humorous to imagine children trying to learn to play a new sport merely by reading, but it is also quite sad to think that many hands-on opportunities are going the way of the dodo in today's schools due to budget cuts and safety/liability concerns related to off-site travel.
From Edutopia: A Modest Curriculum Proposal
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