Pondering public "education"

Being connected to public education for my whole life excerpt for the first 7 years of it - as a student, teacher and mom of students - I can completely agree with this and I have always helped my children to learn differently in addition to what they are taught in school. And I have altered my German classes as far as it goes in the existing system. But, honestly, I don't think it makes a big difference for the students, and it's a torture for me as for them. The best way to learn a language would be to put them into an environment, where nobody speaks their mother tongue :) Any ideas, what to do in my classes?

My Share for Today - Changing Education Paradigms

Monday Moodboard and some other Find

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Monday Moodboard is a game played by the European Team on Etsy. To see other great creations of wondeful European artists, please, visit fleurfatale's blog .

Today I'd love to share with you another find:

The gigantic horrible lie about education

In public education there's an idea that there are certain things everyone is supposed to know in Kindergarten. Then there's some other things all the kids are supposed to learn in first grade and some more things in 2nd grade and so on.

Then when you finally graduate from high school, you know all the stuff you're "supposed to know."

How's that plan been working for you, anyway?

What capability does a high school kid possess on the day he crosses the stage with his diploma at his graduation ceremony?

Generally, he possesses the ability to get a $7 per hour job at Wal-Mart or TGI Friday's. ...

Read the whole article here 

A GREAT DAY AND WORKING WEEK TO EVERYONE! I LOVE YOU!