Your childs education starts and ends with you! How you learn is more important than what you learn. This is why I feel compelled to share with you from personal experience why the responsibility to educate your child needs to rest with your guidance and effort. If you think an expensive private school is going to deliver education that empowers your child to think for themselves, you are mistaken. Please balance their quality schooling with empowering education at home. Add purpose and creativity to the things they can problem solve and innovate at home. What you do there will set them up for life to respect existing knowledge, but have the confidence to challenge any of it that was misrepresented, misinterpreted or has become outdated. I did not get that. I had to invest a lot of effort and time to slowly unlearn the ideas that placed fear and doubt in me. I had self doubt in my ability to problem solve and have original thoughts. Again, how you learn is more important than what you learn. 1. Asking questions is something you can learn as a skill and this aids in your critical thinking. 2. Brainstorming ideas to serve a well defined problem is another skill to help you cross over into creating rather than just consuming other peoples solutions. 3. Learning to be patient and collect information before you rush to conclusions is another discipline to develop. 4. Looking at all logic as open to scrutiny to avoid blind spots is another perspective expanding and empowering process. 5. Learning about first principles that then guide you to deconstruct a problem down to the level of components where you can find disconnected logic, create reconnections and reconstruct into a new solution is the ultimate in personal empowerment. Your child is being taught to accept ideas about how the world works, regardless of how outdated many of it already was, is or will become. The challenge is not what they learn but the habit of looking for answers outside of their ability to question, contemplate and arrive at their own awe inspiring answers. You child is a genius waiting to be empowered to bring out their multi-dimensional intelligence. To let them become trapped into drone groupthink is to quash their essence to shine and touch the world their way, making it a better place. Do not let the education system shut down your childs options. Expensive education only delivers half of the equation and like cheap education can also instill ideas that sabotage their brilliance. Saadia Adeel and Melissa Nelson can you edit/grammar and blog this for me :)
Posted on: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:22:52 +0000