Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Educational philosophies, in up to 20 words

Here's mine:

Schools are not benign. Kids learn to be what they're labeled relative to other students. Then they bear that out.


What's yours? The only rule is this: No more than 20 words.

12 comments:

  1. Every child has a passion within them. It is our job as educators to help them find and follow it.

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  2. Education is mastering the visual memory through experience: To visualize, create, problem solve, internalize, reflect, and most importantly to share.

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  3. Education is questioning everything and challenging the answers.

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  4. School as it is is an old mold. You can pour and pound; most won't fit. Time for something new.

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  5. Learners' growth doesn't happen like that in a graph; rather, like plant roots--legitimate plant roots; teach to that.

    -M

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  6. Learning is watching the world unfold in sharply beautiful ways. Without learning, what world exists? We learn, in order to be.

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  7. Learning happens always and everywhere. We just need to grab those experiences and make them ours.

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  8. learning is what people do naturally. Our job is to maximize the richness of the individual's learning environment.

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  9. Understand education at many levels; have multiple foci. Discover growth opportunities considering interactions between individuals, groups and societies.

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  10. 50% doing the real thing, 40% exercises, 10% talking about it.

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  11. Oceanic cadavers educate; to which most cannot relate. Tantrums by the school held; into which nothing shall be dwelled. Teach.

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  12. Students don't learn from watching or reading, they learn from doing or imagining doing.

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