Wild Scholars Designing a Learning System for Educating Scholars Toward Their Passions and Purposes.

We live in a wild world. Has the classroom prepared you? Student. Are you conformed and ranked at school, being force-fed subjects that are irrelevant to your interests? Parent. Has standardized testing hijacked your child's passions and purposes, and left you without a voice? Teacher. Are you frustrated by the rigid system that dictates what you teach and how you teach it? Neighbor. Have you lost touch with your local school, which plays no direct role in transforming your community? If so, you may be a Wild Scholar, looking for an educational process that prepares you to thrive in this wild world. This book explores an educational system that includes "Client-based Ventures," "Intelligent Fast Failure," "CENTER habits," "Coaches," and other concepts of a Wild Scholars education. How do we develop a system that focuses on Scholars' passions and purposes, rather than just their test scores? Dr. Darrell Velegol, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University, is an award-winning teacher and researcher. He has worked with 1000s of students, using his CENTER habits (www.velegol.org/CENTER.htm). In each young person he works with, he sees the capacity for greatness. He and his family live in State College PA.