Teaching Wisdom

As always, I've been thinking about education, and I've been wondering why we don't teach wisdom in the traditional model of high school? In general, classes on psychology, philosophy, logic, ethics, and sociology are all ignored at the high school level. Instead, we continue to exclusively teach intelligence, focusing on factual information and assuming that the wisdom of the individual will follow naturally. It doesn't take too hard of a look around to see that there is a definitive lack of wisdom in our society...can this be remedied through education? Or are we doomed to continue to drive towards factual knowledge in our schools and produce people incapable of a knowing and meaningful interaction with people and the world? How can we start producing people capable of reasoning and living, and stop trying to create Jeopardy champions?

Sir Ken Robinson video

This video is well worth the watch if you are at all thinking about the future of American education. He really hits home on some key issues with a bit of humor - there aren't really big answers here, but it is filled with the conundrums and questions that are plaguing the mind of those of us out there trying to progress the education system.