Seattle Times: Should Learning Be its Own Reward?

Rick_Tyler
Sun, 19 Nov 2006 22:05:38 +0000

Intrinsic rewards: one of the colleges Son1 is applying to asked for a resume. I showed him what a resume looked like and then left the room. Two pages later, he’d created a list of invententions, things he’d built, skills he’d learned on his own, and a reflection (I doubt he meant it that way) on the path of a curious kid’s intellectual journey. I now have him send that resume with every school application, even if they don’t ask for it. A college that reads that resume and Gets It will value him in their program. I hope some of the admissions officers are that smart, since he is about 10 times more passionate about learning on his own than he is in high school.