What Did You Learn At School Today?
As we learn how to 'do school', do we forget how to learn?
School isn't the only way to get an education, and the school way isn't the only way to learn. In fact, some of the skills we need at school are quite different to the skills we need in order to direct our own learning.
This table from my new book 'A Different Way to Learn' contrasts some of the skills we need to do school 'well' with the skills we need to direct our own learning. Jumping in rather than waiting for instructions. Quitting rather than sticking with it when you've had enough. Diving down the rabbit holes rather than keeping on topic.
So many of us learnt how to do school without realising that in the process we were forgetting how to learn.
Table from A Different Way to Learn, Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education by Naomi Fisher,
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My membership group filled with unschooling parents is discussing this book today! Thank you for sharing this Table! Loved the book.
If mainstream schools could just try this a bit - a certain number of self- directed learning classes a week - and see the results first hand, maybe this could catch on in the mainstream. It's about finding that brave head teacher willing to spark the fire.