(OK, radical for me - I'm hardly Black Panther material - but I do like those jaunty berets they were prone to wearing...)
Bear with me here, people - The Baroness is only working on Coffee #1 of the day.
But a thought that occurred to me while pondering through my Intellectual Devotional (seriously, I bought it for the title alone), and reading about Aristotle and the subject of logic and how it pertains to Philosophy (yah, I used the big "P" here - it's that important).
So, about the whole education thing. And the "science" of it all.
Rather that bustling children out the door at the age of 3 to go to pre-pre-school to finger paint and build puzzles and basically run around like caged banshees, wouldn't it make sense to have an education system where the formative years were spent learning life skills - I'll call it the 5 C's: cooking, cleaning, construction, community involvement, camper training? I'm not talking Montessori - it would be a little more emcompassing than that.
Then when they're at a point where they can appreciate how the applications of what they're learning fit into the world they've been moving in already, and they're eager to learn more on a higher level - then we introduce the hard-core education.
Think of all the people who choose to go back for post-secondary education after moving in the "real" world for a while. They go back thirsty for knowledge, eager to learn ways to make improvements where they've seen a need.
Just thinkin'. That's all.
Bear with me here, people - The Baroness is only working on Coffee #1 of the day.
But a thought that occurred to me while pondering through my Intellectual Devotional (seriously, I bought it for the title alone), and reading about Aristotle and the subject of logic and how it pertains to Philosophy (yah, I used the big "P" here - it's that important).
So, about the whole education thing. And the "science" of it all.
Rather that bustling children out the door at the age of 3 to go to pre-pre-school to finger paint and build puzzles and basically run around like caged banshees, wouldn't it make sense to have an education system where the formative years were spent learning life skills - I'll call it the 5 C's: cooking, cleaning, construction, community involvement, camper training? I'm not talking Montessori - it would be a little more emcompassing than that.
Then when they're at a point where they can appreciate how the applications of what they're learning fit into the world they've been moving in already, and they're eager to learn more on a higher level - then we introduce the hard-core education.
Think of all the people who choose to go back for post-secondary education after moving in the "real" world for a while. They go back thirsty for knowledge, eager to learn ways to make improvements where they've seen a need.
Just thinkin'. That's all.
