<span style="color: #323232">Education is learning languages: the languages of words, music, math, art, chemistry, biology, etc.  Education is learning paradoxes … and oxymorons.  So let me highlight an oxymoron that is damaging our kids’ education:  </span><strong style="color: #323232">Lifelong Learning </strong><span style="color: #323232">and </span><strong style="color: #323232">Gap Year</strong><span style="color: #323232">. If we truly believe in </span><strong style="color: #323232">Lifelong Learning</strong><span style="color: #323232">, then we have to believe that </span><strong style="color: #323232">Gap Years</strong><span style="color: #323232"> are not Gaps…and we have to use a different word. </span>What if we didn’t call it a “<strong>Gap Year</strong>” but called it an “<strong>Applied Discovery Year</strong>”? What if this was a year students saw worlds they only read about or hadn’t even imagined. <a href="http://mills-scofield.com/blog/2014/5/19/its-not-a-gap-year-its-an-education.html#.U301R_ldU3k" target="_blank">Read More</a>...

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