The Impending Collapse of The School System as We Know it
I have worked as a teacher for over 15 years, working with both with children and adults, in private as well as in public schools. As an...
Wild Motherhood
If Children Could Vote. 120.
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education...
Deschooling Humanity to Save the World. 119
“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this...
Playing the Long Game in your Child’s Upbringing. 118
As adults, and as parents in particular, we tend to focus on ‘short-term results’ when it comes to our kids. But what is seldom...
What Keeps Us from Changing the World? 117
The world as we know it is at a crossroads, a crossroads where the old is colliding with the new, where past generations feebly cling...
How do you raise a child? 116
How do you raise a child? My answer: you don’t. Have a look at how a child learns to crawl, stand and walk. The child does that on its...
What is a Child? 115
If I were to illustrate what it is like to be a child in an adult world, it would be an image of being surrounded by lots and lots of...
How Sudbury Schools Challenges Traditional Perspectives on Children and Childhood. 114
“If you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them...
Stifling THAT child, Stifling the Whole World. 113
As teachers, parents and adults in general we have become accustomed to categorizing the people we meet into neat little boxes of...
Education at The Precipice of Change. 112
“We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment…and when it comes,...
Why are We Here and What are We Here to Learn? 111
Education can be defined and reflected upon through many layers or dimensions, some of which are more pure and practical, where others...
The Miseducation of Your Humanity. 110
Education is a process that each new generation goes through, to learn about the ways of the world so as to effectively integrate into...
Momentary Reflections on Education
I regularly publish momentary reflections to my Facebook wall; reflections that emerge in moments of inspiration and often in passing...
OECD, PISA and the New Discourse of Paranoia in our Education Systems. 108
A discourse of paranoia is slowly but surely creeping into the core of our education systems and if you are a parent who has a child in...
Q and A With John Taylor Gatto
I’ve written several blog-posts inspired by Gatto’s work. You can read one of them here. Recently I asked John Taylor Gatto a question on...
Dear Mothers, Let’s Debate Your Choices. 107
I am a teacher who writes about education and although this post is not about education, it does (as all things do) eventually come back...
Who You Are is What You’ll Teach. 106
A couple of weeks ago I walked into a teacher’s lounge where a teacher in his thirties was giving advice to one of the teaching...
Education with Passion for a Digital Generation. 104
Standardized tests and archaic curricular that must be rushed through in a matter of months, are filling up the classrooms. At the same...
Unschooling The School System. 103
“A child does not have to be motivated to learn; in fact, learning cannot be stopped. A child will focus on the world around him and long...
Hacking The School System from Within. 102
“We don’t yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if...