Students: Owning vs. Consuming
Posted on March 8th, 2010 by Dennis Beckner
In the November/December issue of Group Magazine, Rick Lawrence has an article on page 10 about how we damage students by saving them from mistakes and making decisions for them. On this topic, the article reads,
The handicap is real: If kids can’t decide which pasta to pick [A subject addressed earlier in the article], how can we expect them to decide anything for themselves? Angie [Franklin]… told me: “If we don’t make students owners of the church, why would they not walk away?” Why indeed. Owners are responsible for what they own; consumers, on the other hand, consume and then move on.
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