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Williams also identifies leadership
training as a primary benefit of cooperative
learning. Indeed, the teachers I
met seemed to pay close attention to
their students’ managerial skills. In one
public school I visited in downtown Atlanta,
a third-grade teacher pointed out
a quiet student who likes to “do his
own thing.” “But we put him in charge
of safety patrol one morning, so he got
the chance to be a leader, too,” she assured
me.
This teacher was kind and well-intentioned,
but I wonder whether students
like the young safety officer would be
better off if we appreciated that not
everyone aspires to be a leader in the
conventional sense of the word—that
some people wish to fit harmoniously
into the group, and others to be independent
of it. Often the most highly
creative people are in the latter
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