It is only appropriate that Roger C. Schank would use a story to extol the benefits of storytelling in education. The story Schank selects is in the education of young warriors being trained to be sent out to slay the dragon terrorizing the community. The university curriculum, authored and taught by the finest educators in the land, fails miserably. The moral of the story, of course, is that the dragon-slaying program had nothing to do with slaying dragons. Hence the faiure rate (albeit the creation of two new industries: training dragon-slayers, and public relations for the dragon). The idea here is that educational curriculum should be tailored to the student's goals. "The story would be about a particular attempt to slay a particular dragon. The student would be part of a dragon slaying team, which would prepare for the big event by learning to do small parts of the overall task."
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