"I cannot tell you how hyped up I am at this note my friend Linda received today from her child’s school. Her child has to have DOCTORS NOTE to send a packed lunch to school. And does anyone notice the irony in the “health coordinator” and enforcement of no bagged lunches?" Trisha www.momdot.com This parent lives in Richmond, Virginia
A new book by Tony Samara. "Children have a natural and innate ability to want to know and
understand things all the time in every way, but that is lost if it's
not fed, just like anything else - if there is no interaction in any
emotional way or social way then something is lost. So for me, the first
thing when it comes to education is that learning is important and
never to lose the feeling that learning has value." - Tony Samara
(Excerpt from "Conscious Parents, Happy Children" by Tony Samara)
Tony Wagner, Harvard Education Innovation Fellow, says:
“Today knowledge is ubiquitous, constantly changing, growing
exponentially… Today knowledge is free. It’s like air, it’s like water.
It’s become a commodity… There’s no competitive advantage today in
knowing more than the person next to you. The world doesn’t care what
you know. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you
know.”
Although his take on the necessity of a "competitive edge" does not mirror my reasons for including it here, his observations, about the system as a whole, which include the words lackluster and downfall, do.
The process of mainstream ‘education’ swamps the left side of the
brain with the system’s version of reality by communicating ‘logical’
and ‘rational’ information based on ‘observable evidence’. Students are
then told to retain this information, and revise it thoroughly, before
taking something called an ‘exam’ in which they must repeat to the
system what the system has told them to believe.
If they do this really well they pass their exams and ‘progress’.
Well done, Johnny, well done Jane, good marks. If they go on doing this
really well they might even go to university and get a degree to mark their degree of programming. How programmed are you? I’ve got a first class degree. Oh, first class programming, well done you.
