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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...

Emancipated Learning and the Self-Empowered Student. 93

Since I started working as a teacher, I noticed how demotivated the older students were and how the ‘spark of life’ that is so prominent...

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...

The Puppetry of Puberty and its Traumatic Rites of Passage. 90

Today the rites of passage from childhood to adult life, stretches from that which is now defined as the ‘pre-teen’ or ‘tween’ period,...

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...

Arbeit Macht Frei… Or does it? On reclaiming the Value of our Work. 88

Work. It is a word that we all know too well. For some the word Work may produce a bitter and metallic aftertaste, whereas to others the...

How Much Reality Can a Child Handle? 87

I am continuing here from a series of blog-posts that I wrote about introducing children to real-life issues. I Know the World. Do You?...

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...

Proposal for a Progressive Change of our Education Systems. DAY 84

As a teacher I work in a quite unique teaching environment as I work with students one-on-one or at the most groups of three or four....

The Negative Consequences of Positive Reinforcement: DAY 83

There has, going back as far as the last 30-40 years, been a trend towards validating children through ‘positive reinforcement’ as a...

I Know the World. Do You? DAY 82

The title for this blog-post comes from a sign I saw hanging at a school on a poster advertising the international day of books. It said:...

Connecting Learning to Real Life: DAY 81

Yesterday I listened to a podcast from a group of Swedish teachers that were talking about the importance of connecting what happens in...

Cultivating Social Change Through Education: DAY 80

I am here going to discuss these two articles that at first glance may appear as though they are in no way related and I am going to show...

Is Your Child Equipped for The Future? DAY 79

As parents it is natural to want what is best for our children. We want them to be happy, to succeed in life and to know that we have...

Educreation: DAY 78

From this perspective it appears that much of what we learn about being human and about functioning in society is random at best....

Evolving Humanity through Education: DAY 77

John Taylor Gatto, author of the book Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling said something in an interview I...