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Article: Butchers or Tailors?(Executive Perspective)
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- School Administrator
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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Greek mythology contains a story about an innkeeper named Procrustes, who took in travelers. He had one problem: His inn had only one bed.
When a traveler came to the inn, Procrustes measured him. If he was too long for the bed, Procrustes chopped off his legs to the right length. If he was too short, Procrustes tied the traveler to a rack and stretched him to the right length. You didn't want to have to spend the night at Procrustes' place.
When I thought about this story, I realized it pertained to how we have gone about educating our children. We have offered them a one-size-fits-all education, and if they didn't fit the bed we made for them, the ...