Average or Specific?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBmyttcfU4

I loved this video, as it provides an excellent comparison that one size does NOT fit all.  Every child is one of a kind with their own brain, capabilities, talents, stretches, and comprehension.  If we find a way to taylor to each child, it would benefit and excel them to their possible positive potential.  Average is too general, too impersonal, and even stereotypical!  With where our society has come from and where we are headed, we have so much more recognized diversity, new technology, etc.

The example about the cockpit where they spend so much time and detail to accommodate for pilots but each pilot, body and individual is going to be different.  With all of the variations, they had to come up with solutions that weren't just "average," but had to be appropriate for each pilot.

While I found this speech to be very powerful and true, I did think of how this may or may not create segregation and more separation between students and isn't that what we are trying to avoid?  Yes, however, it shouldn't be looked at always as competition.  It's receiving the appropriate tools that you need to grow and achieve as a successful individual in education and in society.  This idea came up about 2/3's into the video where he discusses creating ways for these students, and those students.  Even though my mind went there, the term "appropriateness" came back to me.  If we can reach our students and what they as individuals need for their own learning, and not necessarily make it a competition, but rather useful and personal tools to continue moving forward!