Ideas for Innovation

The article discuss nine ideas to innovate the world, which are:
1. Spur greater parental involvement.
2. Make schools smaller.
3. Utilize community service to foster civic engagement.
4. Teach civics effectively in schools.
5. Fund extracurricular activities.
6. Model a high school on a community.
7. Create opportunities for meaningful youth contribution.
8. Establish mentoring programs that work.
9. Ask youth for solutions.

I found out this article is quite interesting. Yes, I also believe that education is the first step to innovate the society. Parents really should spend time on what the students are doing at school. Most of the parents, even if they have time, they choose to rest from work instead of watching what kids are learning. Making schools smaller is basically also strengthening the education system. Every little kids is the leader of the future; some might be the political leader, some might be the pop culture leader.
I agree with the articles. Children even have to solve problems that the adults left out, such as global warming. Encouraging people to do community service can make the society more united. People can learn a lot from service people. I agree with that supporting more extracurricular activities can generate more ideas for innovation, because it makes the students to reach outside of the school, and to make connections. What Mr. Truchon, our math teacher does in our class is one of the most successful teaching model. We have a lot of peer to peer teaching, which I think is very constructive for students to learn!
I think our school has a lot of chances and time for students to contribute something. I think a lot of people in our school is very creative, because of these opportunities. I think one of the most important thing is every team needs a leader, especially an adult. Students all need an adult to guide and to be encourages. This is a reason why I really love my former basketball coach and baseball coach. They are all really good leaders, and give us a lot of positive feed backs.
The last point, asking kids for the answers, is the most powerful incentive for more ideas of innovation. This is why the world has a lot of conferences where they gather all the kids around the world to talk about some global issues. What we act will lead to what children will act in the future, so we need to teach them properly!