Education

My Philosophy about Education

Education is learning about the world and the way it works, so that the individual can contribute positively to the world and themselves. Education is no loner teaching people to blindly follow orders so that they respect authority and act responsibly. Our society is advanced enough now for the common people to be innately aware of honesty and equality. This revelation in the reality of proper relationships happened after desegregation and the hippy free love movement. But my teachers, who actually grew up in that time missed it, still giving me bad grade because of my failure to mindlessly spit back the meaningless information they gave me. It was meaningless because I wasn't allowed to interpret anything for myself. Instead of placing the grade on my attendance, and together I turned the homework in, they gave me D's and C's because I did the Bibliography out of the Turabian book instead of their personal way, or didn't want to listed to their comments. A student should have a right not to follow the guidelines of a teachers personal way (the classes I am talking about that I got D's in are an ort class because I listened to my walkman instead of kissing his ass, and a composition class because he said I was schizophrenic because I was talking about mushroom trips) I think he was fired because he stopped teaching there, and the southwest studies class because of the bibliography, (she was also fired) , if the student shows up every day and does all the homework assignments they deserve a good grade because they are doing what they are asked; and everybody wants to learn in life and values school ho completes the assignments. Teachers have no right to give bad grades out of a personal control hungry vendetta, they are playing with these peoples lives. A bad grade can not only cause someone to not get in the school they want, but also later the persons confidence. It should be no wonder students don't like teachers when they try to dictate what they should be interested in as if they don't know themselves. Respect for authority comes when
the authority deserves it when the teacher has showed a genuine desire to teach the student and guide them in the right direction and give them information they can relate to and talk to their friends about. But in order for this to happen there needs to be the proper subjects that the student can use later in life,. The common student won't ever use subjects like latin, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, algebra, linguistics, grammar, and even advanced composition, yet all these classes are required subjects. And subjects that would fascinate the common person and give them the background knowledge to find out the world works, how they see the world, and what they can do to make the world a better place are non exist ant in common schools from kinder garden all the way through graduation day from college classes like: Term paper class, religion class, world history form civilization environmentalism activism politics point of view, make your own rap song class, make your own movie class, utopia class, and integration of all subjects class, among just a few. it is becoming common knowledge
that teaching is no longer pumping meaningless data into heads, but guiding kids into their natural directions by showing them by example what you now how it has meaning for you and relating it to what they are interested in to get them motivated to stop wasting their time being bored and doing educational activities. Even rebellious teenagers are not only always seeking new things to do, but trying to learn so they can be an understanding intelligent member in their click, not to mention the fact that they would like to make, so they don't suffer from boredom.
-lesson plan for individual classes

Education part 2

The main way education needs to change is instead of the teacher setting guide lines for the students, to follow in order to keep their attention and motivate them and spur and drive them; we should now turn that around and let the stud their own education. Decide their own subjects and topics and order they do it. The teacher may now become a guide. You may say ''How can one teacher handle a class of 30 when they are all doing their own thing." Well, I don't think it would make a difference because for one the students will be interested in their subject enough that they wouldn't need as much prodding from the teacher to get to the next step, saying the teacher time and frustration. I'll give an example contrasting the way it is with the way it should be. As it is, the class is research paper for history class. The First mistake is the teacher gives the students a limited list of things to write about. Shutting out a wide variety of interesting subject that haven't been studied. The tests should provide proper review for the subjects studied. Or in a book report giving the students a list of books they can work with, shutting out books they are really interested in. The 15 source guidelines with bibliography and footnotes and 50 fact source cards is a good idea, but specific form in these tings is not. Because students interests are broader than before, the subjects they chose to have papers on should be broader than before. For example: Family trees, inventions, myths, or anything that happened in the past that affects the present should be allowed for a history class, instead of keeping it to merely what the teacher presented. For example, in a social issues class students should be allowed to write about marijuana, and LSD, and sex if they want to, so they don't feel like they are being repressed and can let their own ideas about things blossom when they are ready. If you suppress anything in a persons mind when they are developing, it may never come back again, or shut the student off to education and the teacher. The emphasis should be put on whether the student is reading and writing, because when kids get out of school they don't value reading and writing because they were forced to read and write what they didn't want to i school. They leave school with dirty thoughts about brilliant people like Jung, Freud, and Marx, not only because it was given to them in a butchered and over processed way, but also because the teachers themselves didn't fully process the subjects for themselves. No wonder they didn't, they didn have the opportunity to when they were in school, and then they went straight into teaching before getting themselves adequately well roundedly educated. Teachers teach a wide range of subjects to a wide range of people, so it is important for them to be specialists in general knowledge, perhaps you could say being specialists in being non specialists, scratching
the surface in all subjects. For after all, you don need to know the inner workings of t in order to present it to high school kids, just the gist of it and how it relates to other things. The object of the game is to motivate the kids, and in order to stir the kids you need to make the comfortable with you, believe you, respect you, and see that you want to help them. It is meant the people who work together be friends. This
includes the teacher-student relationship. You want to make a friend happy, and so a student who considers a teacher his friend is more likely to want to please him. The ate of making people do things out of fear is over. The assembly line education is over. The age of creativity is here. What will ensure our national security now isn a nation of math whizzes, but open minded, educated, problem solvers who know the meaning and direction of themselves and the world they live in. The best way to teach is by example, because it lives the subject leaning in a way that actually shows the way something is done. So any paper about a subject a teacher gives a student the teacher should have one of their own. To show how and that you can add personal meaning to each subject. So I will show my personal work on all subjects to students. But this shows the need for another reformation that needs to be done in education and that is the need for more freedom for the teachers to teach
what they are prepared to teach. Instead of following the guidelines of some high pain official who has never taught who the teacher has never meet before the relationship between student and teacher should be extended to the teacher and his superiors.

Help Others Creatively

I's time to think and do for yourself, your ready! All styles (music, personalities, etc.) are melting together. The old farts don't understand that Chi training and dancing, stretching sore muscles and yoga, bragging and self affirmation, helping yourself and helping others, etc., are all the same things. I think people born after 1970 are the only ones capable of fully comprehending this. Open your mind to all the noises, even if you hear a lot of static, because we are the most well rounded and powerful people ever. My grandfather sure as hell couldn't do 25 pull ups, run up mountains without stopping, ride a bike for 13 hours straight, do the splits, write 10 page papers on anything in one night, comfortably relate to schizophrenics and violent drunk people, get yelled at and insulted and stay cool, understand the infinity of reality, and know the need to help all other living things. If you don't dedicate your life to help others you will be a cancer cell so you will get it. If you are too lazy then summon the demons who will make you sick if you don't, or the fairies who will make you irie if you do, I do both. Most of these thoughts came from my own mind, mainly what those new age books did for me was give me the confidence to spread my own thoughts. If you send funky vibes at me for bragging and naturally wanting attention I will just get stronger, so do it if you feel the need, I can take it. If everybody could brag without being shot down than we will all be more motivated to reach new heights. I love arrogant people, if I feel patronized by them it's my own fault. I love you and I want to help your cause, because if I don't I feel like HELL. of fully comprehending this, because when I was little

Writing rules

I get distressed when I hear my friends fret over doing papers. Writing papers is one of the most important things to practice. Our ability to communicate is what got us this far, and it will take us into the future. The better we ALL communicate the better off we will be. This is the Age of Communication. Writing our thoughts down on paper is the best way of organizing and expanding what we know about the world. You may not be interested in what you are asked to write about, but i's usually about our culture, and we need to know our culture to know what are the best decisions to make for the big Eagle. Besides, who ever told you you couldn't make boring assignments fun plus a bag of chips? If a teacher asked me to explain why the stock market crashed I would just repeat what I learned and add all sorts of philosophical shit just for fun. So what's the big deal? Not to mention it works your brain so you don't go catatonic like my grandma, and it improves your typing skills so you can write faster in your journal. Writing is my favorite thinking game and it should be yours too because it's the most dynamic art form. People who write a lot have something to say about everything because they have probably thought about it while writing.

Do people get writer's block because their afraid their teachers won't like it? Forget your teachers. C means degree, and if you have fun and do the assignment correctly YOU WILL GRADUATE, so do what I do: 1) Write the first thing that comes to your mind on your portable computer. 2) Do spell check. 3) Read it over and correct it until you like it. Writing style is a bunch of bullshit. All the styles melt together, and not style is better than the other. If you don't want to, there's no reason why you should change your writing style just for a teacher. Lord knows I won't ever tell anybody their writing style sucks, even if it does. I would just give them sentences to clarify what they just said. This way they learn how to be clear without losing any part of their original work. Writing is way funnier than anything in the whole world, so do it!

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