I really enjoyed watching “Most Likely to Succeed” and felt truly inspired afterwards. Seeing such a novel way of education being introduced, and succeeding, was refreshing and led me to a lot of questions with regards to our current education system. The discussions throughout the film made complete and total sense to me. Education should be about the process and the goal should be to leave students with tangible skills that can be applied outside of the scholastic system. Their inquiry-based projects that ultimately led to a school wide exhibition turned out to be an extraordinary example of how passion, wonder, and perseverance can be applied to create something amazing.
The journey that each student, in particular Samantha and Brian, went through during their time at High Tech High showed how they had matured and learned valuable lessons that I do not believe they would have experienced through attending a traditional school. I am interested to see if our current education system will be able to adopt some of the principals of High Tech High, or better yet, move towards embracing inquiry-based learning.
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