If you could design a school, what would it be like?
You've been given the task of designing, from the group up, a new school. All you know is that you're responsible for the education of a group of children from kindergarten through grade twelve--aside from that loose guideline, you have total freedom to design the curriculum how you wish. What would your education system look like? How would you prepare young people for life in today's world? What do you feel children should learn?
It's be a collage specializing in bilogy and literature. Oh yeah, you only need to study three of the boring classes like math.
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Children Teaching Adults. We need to learn so much about kids, that if we do not learn to be like them, it doesn't matter how much we have studied, learn, titles we got, and jobs... More »
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Posted on Mar 21st, 2008
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Flax
I have designed a school, www onlinehumanities.com. It is college the way Liberal Arts should be taught but is not. Take a look and let me know what you think.
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Posted on Feb 2nd, 2008
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MikeG
The ideal school is not a centralized institutional school of any kind. Rather, is the acceptance of responsibility to design your own curriculum and virtual training and education. It is the simple "click" of realization that we... More »
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Posted on Jul 23rd, 2007
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Apollo
I’d create a school that could be very mindful of development and thus responsive to the station of life students are in while instilling the many dimensions of learning, discipline and understanding available to us.... More »
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Posted on Jun 19th, 2007
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John
Vision/Mission: To provide students with the insight, knowledge, skills necessary to consciously and deliberately create a vision of the future they desire and to make that vision manifest. Fundamental to this mission is the requirement... More »
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To my mind we have a very good school system .the only thing that I 'd like to chance is that some lessons would be organized outside
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Posted on May 20th, 2007
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Mozez
To start off with, im not such a big fan of formal education. I think that people learn a lot better in an informal setting. Also, the greatest school on earth is daily life, so... More »
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Posted on May 17th, 2007
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syzygy
it would be designed so that it would simply be a place where children would love to come everyday.....and really learn what is beautiful and precious about our world and our life.....
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Posted on May 15th, 2007
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Dwon
Well this is Difficult! It may take days to fully answer this one. First, I will stress ethics from the first day of kindergarten until the last day of twelfth grade. I will also inform... More »
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