Education
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For life for everyone!
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You bank your learning credits with the University of your choice. The federal Government pays bonus payments to Universities based on their level of banked credits in years of budget surpluses or other times the country can afford to pay out these bonuses.
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We use the honor system. You read a book. You write a summary of what you have learned. You record this in your ever building learning bank.
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You are subject to a surprise audit by University or Government personnel at any time. Don’t cheat the system!
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Grammar school education will be changed so that each student is motivated by being assigned a career job of their choice. A job they have passion to pursue. They can change each semester if they wish. Teachers will be challenged to adapt curriculum of the basics; reading, writing and arithmetic.
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The current education system has “so much mind on the matter that the spirit is forgotten about.” We need to teach young people coping skills. Half the battle in succeeding in life is knowing how to handle your suffering and emotions. How to handle crises that inevitably always occur.
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We must teach young kids how to get along with others.
- Create special student-loan repayment programs to encourage students into the teaching profession. Provide extra special easy repayment terms to those willing to dedicate a minimum of seven years service in underserved rural and inner city areas. We need to provide multiple incentives to attract bright and talented people into teaching! We need great teachers!
- No talented prospective teacher wants to work in an environment of mediocrity, bureaucracy, and conformity. We need to free up the great creativity of our teachers to allow them to run classrooms their way. We need to allow customized approaches to reaching students and motivating them. We need a system for sharing best practices that are found to work through experimentation. We need to unleash and encourage innovation in teaching!
- Since 1980 per pupil expenditures on public K-12 education after adjusting for inflation have more than doubled, yet education levels of students has declined. Spending more is not the only answer. Creatively engaging and motivating students is the answer.
We need to place more emphasis on teaching and less on bureaucracy. Efforts must be made to ensure as much of tax payer resources as possible are going towards actual teaching.We need to stop micro managing the activities of teachers and school administrators. Teachers are professionals and they should be treated accordingly. We need to empower them to run their own classrooms and to provide leadership in running schools. The number one issue is not resources and more spending. The number one issue is motivating students to actual learn. We have great teachers, great facilities, great books in great libraries that are not being utilized to the fullest extent due to lack of motivation on the part of students. The new focus has to be on motivation.We need to improve the way we recruit, train and reward teachers. To deal with the shortage of teachers we need to embrace volunteers. We should especially work to recruit volunteers that bring significant experience from "real World" jobs to help students learn from their background and life work. Bonuses should be given to teachers successful in teaching in urban and rural settings. We need to recruit students into the "good gangs" of joyful learning and healthy friendships with tools that compete with recruitment methods and incentives pulling them into "bad gangs." The Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Youth Build are great examples. We must provide students that are not on sports team with the same sense of excitement and sense of belonging as part of non-sports groups. We must understand and implement the social element to motivation in learning.
"An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns." - Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790)
"Tell me....And I Forget,
Teach me.....And I Learn,
Involve Me.....And I Remember." - Benjamin Franklin
Click on our related links below:
The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship - NFTE
Americans Give Twice as Much as the Next Most Charitable Country
Investment in Education: Private and Public Returns
Futurist: To Fix Education, Hands on Participatory Learning Model
Students Choose Projects Experiment in Education Washington State
Some Ideas for Motivating Students
The Art and Craft of Motivating Students Click here: The Art and Craft of Motivating Students
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The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
Check out CNN.com - Students learn to create, not find, jobs - Feb. 14, 2003