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7Lessons You Learned@School That Could Possibly Ruin Your Life

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How the public school system
tried (successfully or not) to
inhibit your development
and seven simple remedies
for your personal freedom.
Read, reflect, discuss and take
action – that ́s what it's all
about. To start a conversation
with you and make some
positive changes.

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04/10/2007
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Diana's medical stuff 11 months ago

By far is great keep it up =)

jzglaker about 1 year ago

quite good

E. Floyd about 1 year ago

Steli, Your premise rings true. The inhibitory effects of public education are more pronounced in some pupils; some are able to overcome it with good support from home and develop into students. I would add that one of the least appreciated benefits of public education is the socialization - the opportunity to learn and practice social skills. I believe that the long-term value of socialization actually exceeds the value of any other outcome in public education. I saw so many home-schooled and private-schooled kids emerge as "social cripples" that I resolved to keep my three daughters in public schools for that value alone, and supplement their education at home where necessary. (They all emerged "successful" by most measures - a research biologist, a labor and delivery nurse, and the youngest has just started at UGA.)

I must note that your ideas regarding student-led learning with the teacher as "guide on the side" rather than "sage on the stage" are consistent with the education reform movement and modern teaching practices that are being taught to teachers in some education programs. There's lots of inertia in the public education industry, though, and the enabling technologies are just beginning to penetrate public school districts.

I have personally experienced subconscious problem solving, first in engineering school. (I actually dreamed the proof to a theorem on a math take-home final exam.) I have used the method deliberately now for over thirty years to solve knotty technical and system design problems, with great success. I would add that, for a really intractible problem, it takes more than just instructing your subconscious to "find the solution." You have to familiarize yourself with the landscape first by focusing on the problem, trying for rational solutions, and exploring all of its aspects, without getting locked into any single approach. Metaphorically, the feeling is like visiting an unfamiliar house and exploring all of its hallways, rooms, basements, attics, crawl spaces, and grounds until they become familiar to you and you start to feel at home there. You have to give your subconscious enough raw material.

Finally, a constructive criticism: Please, oh please, do a copy-edit pass on your text! If you don't have the skills, have someone else do it. The misspellings, grammmatical errors, misused words, and rambling paragraphs seriously detract from the message, to the point that many educated readers will mark you as a buffoon by the third lesson and move on. In the short term, find an impoverished English major and pay her to copy-edit every piece of text you place in public view. (They work cheap.) In the long term, for your own growth and professional development, take an English Composition or Business Writing class, then practice, practice, practice. This is not "creative writing"; you don't need to write the next great America...

GODS MESSENGER about 1 year ago

SCHOOLS SUCK.WHATS STRESSES EVERONE OUT IT IS YOUR LIFE THERE IS NO ROOM FOR GOD OR RELGION YOU MUST CONCENTRATE ON YOUR CARRER.GOD INTENDED FOR US TO HAVE A BETTER LIFE LIVE FREE HAVE FUN CHERRISH THE MOMENTS.BUT ITS REALLY HARD TO DO THIS CAUSE THE WAY SOCIETY IS TODAY.WHAT DOES THE FUTURE UNHOLD FOR US BUT THINK WHATD THEY DO BACK IN THE OLD DAYS SURE THEY DIDNT HAVE ANY COOL STUFF BUT ATLEST SCHOOL WASNT INVENTED YOU LEARNED WHAT YOU WANTED YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE WAKEING UP EVRYDAY TO THAT NO ERA THA NEW BEGINNING OF WONDERING SOMETIMES I WISH THE FUTURE WASNT SO DIFFICULT ITS SO EASY BUT WHAT EVERYONELES THINK EVERYONE ELSE WILL TO

Bronwyn over 2 years ago

i dont really understand!! hehehhhe

TheReaper35 over 2 years ago

If you guys dig this, go pick up some of Neil Postman's work, such as, "Amusing Ourselves to Death."

Anonymous over 2 years ago

mans most positive tive is a negative,it's a mega-negative.

SteliEfti over 2 years ago

hey jimi! thankx so much for your kind words and your support! You rock!

jimdwalton over 2 years ago

Fantasic, a must read for any body with high expectations!!! I would love to share with my readers and do a blog post about your blog

tik01 over 2 years ago

great title!

SteliEfti over 2 years ago

IMPORTANT: This Ebook is still under construction! Your feedback, comments and suggestions will help me improve it and publish a second version next month! SO THANKX TO ALL OF YOU WHO EMAIL ME OR COMMENT HERE TO SPEAK UP THEIR MIND!!!

kimee over 2 years ago

very intelligent and thoughtful. good job!

surjit over 2 years ago

Revolutionary Ideas.Cheers.Best wishes.

the100rabh over 2 years ago

Very thoughtful

jimzzor over 2 years ago

Wow. This is great... Some of it was a bit clouded and confusing, but I think you've done a wonderful job.

SteliEfti over 2 years ago

You can find a previous discussion about the 7Lessons @ the EduBlogger Event 07 here: http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2007/04...