All Blog Posts Tagged 'education' (4)

I visited a local school open day yesterday and the ten year olds who showed me around seemed to know a lot of facts but I wondered whether they knew much about how things worked.

Edward de Bono often says that school kids should be taught how the corner shop works - but it seems very unlikely that this school would ever teach this. For example, at that school the five year olds learnt how to read from a computer connected to a website. But children taught to think would ask…

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The quality of public education in Hawaii is awful. To compound this, the state

of Hawaii has declared "furlough" day on Fridays until further notice from a lack of funding. This means, there is one day a week when there is no school that adults have to figure out what else to do with their kids!



So there's a big need for something for kids to do on Fridays that is educational or productive besides having the relatives babysit the kids. Looks as if it's an amazing fit to have… Continue

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I started doing some videos to suggest the possibility that the (Australian) government should be doing more to encourage "thinking" as part of the curriculum.



But the more I thought about it, and explored the issue, and looked at what people were doing already, the more futile it seemed.



Maybe it could be done, I know that EdB often cites the example of Venezuela, but it seems unrealistic to expect politicians in Western democracies to foist something unfamiliar onto a… Continue