In the hurry to complete tasks, nothing is truly finished

BY MOHAN DHALL

Families feel time poor, driven from one thing to another, back to back. Forever on the go, much gets done, but not much is actually accomplished. The hurry from here to there, the distraction of messages, the backto-back nature of the self against stillness and reflection - the hum gives no room for silence.

Simply, there is too little time to spend with one another other than in the transitions between things.

At school, the hurry to finish assessments and the focus on getting things done lead to a huge compromise in the lives of our students.

The students, in this busy distracted world, are not being given a chance to learn how to learn.

A crowded curriculum is anathema to learning. As one leading educator told me recently, “There is too much breadth and