A Different Kind of Education Reform

We at The Big Brain Club have never been shy about our mission, or about our conviction that being smart is cool. We talk about it at length (amongst ourselves and with others), we write articles and blog entries about it. We try as best we can to embody it.

But there is a wholly different warm and fuzzy feeling that comes along with seeing similar sentiments echoed elsewhere in the media or in the pop culture universe. One recent example is this article by Daniel Roth, which first appeared in an issue of Wired Magazine late last year. Mr. Roth is an accomplished writer whose work has appeared in places like Conde Nast Portfolio and Forbes, but he's really struck a cord with The Big Brain Club staff by writing about education reform of a unique variety.

Put simply, Roth argues that no amount of legislation or increased spending will move the needle appreciably when it comes to making this generation of students -- and perhaps more importantly, the generations that follow -- more serious about their education unless intelligence itself can be recast as an admirable quality rather than a devastating social stigma.

In other words, smart is cool, and it's time to start treating it that way.

We at The Big Brain Club are far from the first to tout the importance of this concept, but nevertheless, it's gratifying to come across others who belong to the same club. Read Daniel's Roth's article, which is short but packed with real-world examples that help illustrate the point beautifully, and be sure to check back with us regularly. We have some school initiatives of our own beginning later this year, and hopefully, with any luck, we'll be providing a whole new data set for review very, very soon.

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