The Importance of Authentic Self-Direction in Education

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I think on the surface it immediately to me captures the influence that a person can have or a key moment can have on pursuing an opportunity and this special role of educators is something that we've done a lot of work on lately. It's especially today it feels like teachers and educators want to do so much to really connect and inspire students but are constrained in how they're able to with everything else that they need to do. The other piece that I remember was really glad to see pulled out was how important it is to have that kind of authentic self-directed component that's what a student feels recognized for rather than this imposed upon view of like go to college do this whatever it is you know

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