'Children are always damaged when they are allowed or compelled to move on beyond some stage...before they know they can get it completely right.' - Alasdair MacIntyre
“Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no purpose. Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention.” - Neil Postman, The End of Education
Personal narratives provide the fabric of our self-understanding, weaving together our experiences with our evaluations to produce a story of our life in relation to others.
'Behind every pedagogy is an anthropology. What we think education does, what it is for, depends on our image of what we think humans do, what they are for. ' - RJ Snell and Steven D Cone, Authentic Cosmopolitanism
This is why Story-Based Learning has unlimited potential to change the world:
'People use stories to structure their experience...and to help them make sense and meaning'.
- Dr David Drake, Narrative Coaching.