Taking responsibility for education—responsibility on the part of students, families, communities, and nations—is of course a hot-button issue these days, approached and argued from all points on the political compass. Too often, however, the suggestion is made that “taking responsibility” is somehow an independent thing from the learning itself, and that responsibility can be put on the shoulders of parents and teachers without necessarily involving the student. Both of those notions are false. Taking responsibility for education is education; taking responsibility for learning is learning.
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