Education

Development or stagnation? Permanence or transience? ‘I really care’ or ‘I don’t care’? Which side are you on? You don’t have to answer right away. If you hesitate, it is a good time for reading this preview.

Do you worry about education? We do, that’s why you are currently reading this article - a review of the grassroots revolutionary’s book, Ken Robinson, who clearly emphasize the need of a change, who inspire for the action in favour of the restructuring educational systems worldwide.

It isn't a guide or a set of universal principles, rather a flashback. Beginning from such seemingly trivial aspect as a place for learning, by building good habits up to time after class exploitation I’m trying to describe what I would tell myself today while being at the beginning of my studies.

Children blindly wade through schools, numbed and dormant, one by one. This is a simple way right to the sad life deprived of creativity and self-confidence. What about wakey, wakey?

In recent years I had an opportunity to hold many talks with people who struggled with learning difficulties. It was easy to find reasons in many areas - from the lack of knowledge about effective learning techniques, throughout badly defined learning goals till the fact of forcing oneself to acquiring things which we aren’t fascinated by.

We are convinced that revolution in education which is being emphasized by Robinson, has a chance to completely change and improve the system’s effectiveness. Are you in?