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Re: Thursday, May 5, 2005
On going forward: I believe encouraging is not needed for childeren. Nurturing is not needed for children. Every human being is programmed with the will to learn. We learn to speak spontaneously, why wouldn't we be able to learn to write spontaneously? If writing is seen as a mean to reach a certain goal, children will learn it by themselves. Same for all other fields of knowledge. By leaving the initiative with the child - allowing boredom - it will be forced to think about what it wants to do. The child will come to realise that nothing changes unless it takes initiative. If children aren't being taught to be passive and helpless, they will create their own goals and overcome the (learning) challenges on the way. They will overcome these challenges from an intrinsic motivation, not because of external punishment or reward. This is not just theory, it has been succesfully put in practice for over thirty years in the Sudbury Valley School (www.sudval.org) and the democratic Sudbury schools are steadily spreading over the world. I myself,since I'm not satisfied with what university is offering, am educating myself by blogging and Wikilearning. I'm really proud to be able to have teachers as Doc Searls, Christopher Locke, Dave Pollard, Dan Gillmore. And blogs like Corante and Nanobot, ... And you bet I will have more interaction with these people than I ever will with my teachers at university. Keep it up! And visit my blog, www.mylearningblog.org
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