School is people too

All of us are good problem solvers, better or worse depending on the circumstances. Learning how to read a face, for example, requires tremendous judgement. The problem is that the digital generation seems to create too neat a line between analog and digital environments. For example, students (Sean included) seem to treat school like a video game, a situation that ought to have highly circumscribed parameters. For me, school is more like reading faces—students are supposed to be making judgments about what's required and what should be done since an instructor's curriculum is often not what's stated on a syllabus.