Purpose Learning

Objective, purpose, task-oriented learning is a critical component of Pedagogy. However, Direct Instruction (DI) in pedagogy is a technical term that refers to highly scripted, sequenced learning, but not explicitly connected to Purpose Learning or Direct Learning.

Direct Learning is supposed to be the learning of things directly related to accomplishing things, physical, mental, or spiritual. It is not learning theory first - it is practice first - from which more profound theory can be learned. Theorists accomplish amazing things - such as Einstein in E=mc2 - but the downside is the atomic bomb. Practitioners, on the other hand, obtain a more integrated perspective because they are not armchair theorists, and thus have a more entrepreneurial perspective. They are Eu-entrepreneurial. However, practitioners, such as Buckminster Fuller, are nothing without sufficient Moral Intelligence to collaborate. I say this because even Fuller believed in patents.

What we need is Purpose Learning - https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/winter-2022/purpose-learning-reimagining-what-and-how-students-learn/ - Think-feel-do - as an antidote to the Factory Model of education.