Tag: Education
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A Salute to Women Extraordinaires – Teachers
A tribute to Mrs Wilcox. I thank you and all those teachers who imprinted so richly my soul.
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Raising an Intuitive Child
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.” – Albert Einstein
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Constructivism in Education
With the constructivism model, children learn eagerly and easily because they want to learn.
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Are Market Processes Over-stepping their Bounds?
When introducing market processes into arenas like education we are replacing a more effective incentive with a less effective one.
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Legitimate Leadership and the Limitations of Democracy
This suggests that the democracy/autocracy debate is fundamentally a red herring that diverts the attention from the real question of legitimacy
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The Winner Takes it All… by Yusuf Abdulrahman
Learners soon discover that in order to be considered significant by the system, they require top-grades, and their attention is quickly shifted from discovery and creativity to the acquisition of certificates.
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The Malevolence of Current Education
The education systems were not intended to grow, empower, or unleash human potential, but to prepare children for the job market.
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Cultivating Willing Teachers
How do schools create the conditions where the majority of their teachers come to work to make a contribution to children’s lives and not just to collect a paycheck?
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Compulsion Cannot Lead to Learning
Real learning does not take place under compulsion, and this is why the Care and Growth framework developed by Schuitema is the single most important intervention required in the education sector in this 21st Century.
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What Education Must Do For Our Youth
One of the most powerful motivators is a commitment to a cause that is bigger than one’s self interest. If educators cultivate the capacity to easily adopt such causes we will see a greater willingness in our youth to strive through adversity in pursuit of something truly noble.