Open Learning

Rote learning starting in Kindergarten may not be the best way to learn, or teach, the fundamental skills of math.

Same likely goes for reading— Finnish Schools, the highest-performing, don’t impose reading lessons until much later than Kindergarten, when the mind is much more capable and receptive to the skills and comprehension of reading and writing...

When Less Is More: The Case for Teaching Less Math in School In an experiment, children who were taught less learned more.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201704/what-are-the-proper-purposes-system-schooling

What Are the Proper Purposes of a System of Schooling? That's an honest question; I'm looking for your ideas.

"One of the most profound changes that occurs when modern schooling is introduced into traditional societies around the world is a radical shift in the locus of power and control over learning from children, families, and communities to ever more centralized systems of authority."

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/occupy-your-brain-on-power-knowledge-and-the-reoccupation-of-common-sense/

The Profound Ways that Schooling Harms Society: Incredibly, All of This Is Invisible to Our Culture One of the most profound changes that occurs when modern schooling is introduced into traditional societies around the world is a radical shift in the locus of power and control over learning from children, families, and communities to ever more centralized systems of authority.

I'm Finnish on my father's side, though I grew up in Northern California and live in Connecticut, and have only been in Helsinki, once, briefly. Yet, it all comes full circle:

FINLAND TO BECOME THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO GET RID OF ALL SCHOOL SUBJECTS

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=JhhcnJU9U_w

FINLAND TO BECOME THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO GET RID OF ALL SCHOOL SUBJECTS Event Is Coming Soon - FINLAND TO BECOME THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO GET RID OF ALL SCHOOL SUBJECTS It’s no secret that the modern day education system...

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Cultivate LifeLong Love of Learning:

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/cultivating-love-learning-elena-aguilar

Cultivating a Love of Learning Listen and look for the moments where you can kindle the fire of a child's curiosity.

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https://www.facebook.com/delilahtroia/posts/10209398816624616

The Culture of Childhood: We’ve Almost Destroyed It Children learn the most valuable lessons with other children, away from adults.

"In contrast to all this concern about grades, here is what Laszlo Bock, senior vice president of people operations at Google, had to say in a NYT interview about Google’s hiring practices and experiences: 'One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that GPA’s [grade point averages] are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless…. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and GPA’s and test scores, but we don’t anymore, unless you’re just a few years out of school. We found that they don’t predict anything.'”

"In the same interview, Bock went on to explain, 'I think academic environments are artificial environments. People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment. One of my own frustrations when I was in college and grad school is that you knew the professor was looking for a specific answer. You could figure that out, but it’s much more interesting to solve problems where there isn’t an obvious answer. You want people who like figuring out stuff where there is no obvious answer.' Bock went on to point out that the more experience Google has with hiring, the more inclined they are to hire people with no college at all. At present, he said, they have teams where 14 percent of the members have never gone to college."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201604/inverse-relationship-between-gpa-and-innovative-orientation

Inverse Relationship Between GPA and Innovative Orientation The more students focus on test scores, the less creative they become.

Apparently it's Teacher Appreciation Day.

https://eduflow.wordpress.com/2013/11/06/learning-versus-teaching/

Learning Versus Teaching Learning and teaching are the foundation of education and training. Most of us tend to place teaching first in the paradigm and say teaching and learning. It is as though there is a tacit belief …

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