Shifting education goals

Help Children Learn: from Conscious Parenting Book Friday 08 June 2012 at 08:17 am

Our Children

How to Help Children Learn

One of the biggest problems of education today is that the ‘factory model’ of teaching: the top-down approach and the rewards-and-punishments approach, limit students’ ability to contribute with their imagination and creativity.

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The system needs a shift in focus: from one that teaches children a curriculum, to the one that inspires lifelong learning. Education has to shift from conveying knowledge in a static curriculum package to enabling teachers and students to view knowledge as a dynamic entity that is constantly changing.

Gurdjieff

Gurdjeff spiritual quotes Saturday 02 June 2012 at 6:08 pm

Spiritual Quotes

G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949)

was an influential spiritual teacher

Gurdjieff taught that people live in a state of ‘waking sleep’, but that with 'The Work' it is possible to transcend to a Higher state of Consciousness.

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The book is a compilation of lectures from meeting in Moscow, Berlin, London, Paris, New York by his pupils.

Gurdjieff inspirational quote about Being Human:

'Man's possibilities are very great. You cannot even conceive a shadow of what man is capable of attaining. But nothing can be attained in sleep. In the consciousness of a sleeping man his illusions, his 'dreams' are mixed with reality. He lives in a subjective world and he can never escape from it. And this is the reason why he can never make use of all the powers he possesses and why he lives in only a small part of himself.'

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Education of the future

Lessons from Finland Friday 01 June 2012 at 9:14 pm

Our Children

Education of the future

“You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.” (Kahlil Gibran, On Children)

We cannot aim to prepare our children for the careers of the future. We live in such a dynamic world that what was a norm 10 years ago, almost certainly will not be reality in 10 years’ time.

The education of the future is much more challenging, shifting further away from ‘spelling and formulas’ towards the development of cognitive thinking where children are given tools to develop their own world, when their time comes.