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 the inner person to come alive with imagination, inspiration, and feelings that 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. Currently, in the United States, “Common Core has replaced a balanced curriculum.
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. As an international speaker, international award winning writer, international author, international consultant, international columnist, international board certified regression therapist, artist, and ordained minister for spiritual counseling, I share my experience, strength and hope that “everyone will enrich their lives”.
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