We Need Fewer Exams and More Wilderness in Education
Ben Fogle – Why are we still using teaching systems that rely on cramming information to be regurgitated in exams?
TAG: schooling
The New Preschool System is Crushing Kids and Making Them Hate Learning
Anna Hunt – The new preschool focuses on academics rather than communication, creativity and play, making frustrated robots out of our children.
Why After A Decade Of Education Are Our Kids So Uneducated?
Phillip J. Watt – What is modern education doing to our children?
Another Sign that Traditional Schooling Needs an Overhaul
Video – This famous CE explains why he was dissatisfied with traditional schooling and started a small school that teaches without a grade structure.
I Will Not Let an Exam Result Decide My Fate
Video – We need to open our minds and educate ourselves that exam results aren’t the barometer of success and that we can’t let them decide our fate.
These 4 Young People are the Voice of the Next Revolution
Sigmund Fraud – These four inspiring young people are setting the example with their courage and integrity.
Anti-Intellectualism and the “Dumbing Down” of America
Ray B. Williams – There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.
Ending the Classroom Factory Model: How Technology Will Personalize Education
Video – Will technology create a more dynamic and effective classroom environment that encourages students to help each other achieve educational goals?
The New Dumbness Bred by Compulsory Schooling
Video – Part four in a series of short videos based on John Taylor Gatto’s book, The Underground History of American Education.
Student Sets Gauge for Effective Education
Video – How hacking education can make young people more effective and happy.
Left Brain Worship and the Religion of Academia
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I wish to return to consciousness a number of curious aspects associated with the institution that we call “higher learning.” In the process, I’ll call into review certain facets of its design and briefly describe some of the inner-workings of this construct, as I see it. There are many systems, …
Indigo Children and the 3 Stages of Life in a Capitalistic Industrial Society
Kees Deckers, Contributor Waking Times So-called new-age and spiritualistic believers think that new generations of children are more intelligent than past generations of children. Although it is important to finally start recognising that children are human and no less stupid than their so-called elders, I doubt very much that this is the case. But again …
Green Schools – Rethinking Our Approach to Schooling
Anna Hunt, Staff Writer Waking Times Image if your child came home from school excited as could be because they had been learning how to plant trees. Or what if your kindergartner started asking you to buy more organic tomatoes and kale at the store, instead of Goldfish, because that’s what her science class harvested from …
Learning Careerism As A Moral Reward System
Aaron Jackson, Guest Writer Waking Times The concepts of consumerism and careerism are predominant in first world countries, and are increasing in countries with less “advanced” economies too, but why? The definition of careerism or a careerist is “the characteristics associated with one who advances his career even at the expense of his pride and dignity.” Simply looking …