It does not take money but being
open-minded to allow individuals to be themselves. As a retired teacher in
the state of Washington, I understand what needs to happen to education. It is
not about tests, money, or rigid teacher training, it is about a balanced
philosophy for left and right brain creativity.
There is a faction who wants to raise a
labor force that does not think for themselves. Schools have been taken over by
this agenda and infiltrated the curriculum and purpose of education. What is a
real education? To “deliver information” as described by recent
educators and Bill Gates is the opposite of the meaning of education. This
is the intent of a controlling manipulative group who in our society
wishes to govern.
Real education allows that inner person
to come alive with imagination, inspiration, and feelings create real
people. Free thinkers do not accept tyranny, laws that deprive freedom,
and thought control. As a public school teacher with more than sixty years
experience, I would like to explain about teaching. It is more important
to have a teacher with a rational mind, a healthy attitude, and an open
mind, than a trained teacher that is pushed through a restrictive set
of curriculum that promotes everyone being the same.
In the fifties, we taught to the needs
of the student, and then it changed to the school district decided
what we were to teach, followed by the state mandates, then the
federal government had "No Child Left Behind". It has been a
slow change of philosophy to create a limited mindset, therefore denying
the whole child.
We need diversity and not similarity to
make our country strong. We have to have people who think out of the box and
are not punished for thinking beyond the current trends of uniformity. Test
scores are only a number given to the results of the performance by a student
on a given day on a skill learned. It has nothing to do with innate
intelligence or ingenuity.
To pigeonhole a student with a number
and compare them to another person takes away the individuality of the
student’s unique abilities and talents. It reduces them to a digit and takes
away their personality and personal freedom to be themselves. When did
leaders come from the well-trained ranks? Only if they have the ability to
be creative, intuitive, and offer ideas beyond the confined thinking of
the times is there real education.
The United States has departed from our pioneers in education: such as John Dewey, Jean Piaget, and Abraham Maslow. Friedrich Froebel's philosophy was that humans are creative beings. These educators provided an innovative process producing real education for pupils. Teachers need to assist a student in finding their own abilities while discovering learning is limitless.
A person who is able to encourage others
to think from his heart did not learn it from a book. This is the real teaching
and is not quantifiable. "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only
help him find it within himself." Galileo.
A left-brain curriculum creates robots
and children with poor self-esteem. People are individuals and no one is the
same. It is not teaching to fill a student with book learning. In
addition, you cannot teach a teacher to think with his heart. The movie,
"Spare Parts" is a great example of a teacher who allowed high
students to enter a contest and use their talents to achieve victory over Ivy
League colleges in a national contest for underwater robotics. When the
students were encouraged to think with their imaginations, they were not only
winners, but gained self-esteem.
Creativity is discouraged because book
learning and test readiness takes priority, recently. This is a grave mistake
if you want to build success within a child. I was taught "success breeds
success" in college classes for teacher's training. When labeled a failure
for being a square peg in a round hole, the emotional damage may not ever be
repaired.
I am an instinctive a teacher finding
that learning in a happy situation works much better. A good teacher will drop
out of the field because they are sensitive people. What is left is a robot
teacher teaching robot students. A basic and diverse background was not meant
to create humiliating hoops to jump through while training in the profession,
as I just heard from a person supervising student teachers.
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