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...
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Wild Motherhood
The Future of Education: The Potential, Passion and Purpose of the Self-Directed Learner. 121
You are a unique being. There is no one in the world that is exactly like you, who has the exact skill-set or way of going about things...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Radical Unschooling: Education Outside The Box. 101
“Rules in the absence of principle are often found to be irrelevant by children. Principles lived fully make rules unnecessary.” —Karen...
Are You Supporting Your Child To Reach Their Full Potential? 99
She said what most parents say when asked about the quality of their child’s school: “Well, it seems good.” Like most parents she has...
Domesticating the Natural Child. 98
From the moment a child is born, it is expected to assimilate to the culture and society surrounding it, to make its norms and traditions...
Refugee Children as Casualities in the Global War for Profit. 97
I work as a native language teacher and my colleagues and I teach children who come from over 100 different countries. Some come from...
The Future of Education and the School of Life. 96
In this post we are therefore going to do a different thought experiment. We are going to imagine what it would be like to go to school...
Imagine A Day in the Life of Your Child. 95
Working as a teacher I’ve come to realize that parents hold the key to changing the education system. Here’s why: Parents, unlike...
Why Smaller Classes are Essential for The Success and Well-Being of Your Child. 94
I will begin by sharing recent experiences I had within teaching here in Sweden to exemplify how grave this problem is and how it can be...
How Much is Your Child’s Life Worth? 92
When children learn history for example, they learn to see the cultural context in which they are embedded in a certain way. When they...
How an Unequal Vocabulary Creates an Unequal World. 91
Most of us rarely consider how the words we speak determine so much in our lives; from the ability to express oneself, to effectively...
Expropriating the Value of Work through Play. 89
In the last post titled Arbeit Macht Frei… Or does it? On reclaiming the Value of our Work. 88 we discussed the word Work in relation to...
Our Common Core. 86
Everything that exists on this Earth is made out of the same Common Core, the same molecules, and the same atoms. 75 % of the earth is...
John Taylor Gatto: Blowing the Whistle on the Education System. 85
“Inglis breaks down the purpose – the actual purpose – of modem schooling into six basic functions, any one of which is enough to curl...
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