What if kids had to make their own learning fun and exciting? I mean, what if they had to make it so they really liked learning, whatever you put in front of them. Let’s even go further and say it was their job to find a project, gym or means to practice and perfect the learning. What if your students were skilled, like you, making learning fun and exciting. They were great about creating worksheets, projects, or finding some gym to practice and perfect the learning?
The recent research is indicating “talent” is a mistaken concept. Most presumed talented people really just somehow started doing things they liked, such that they actually got better at it through practice. Better than other kids or people who haven’t practiced. Hey, people get better with practice. So now we have to ask the question: What did they like so much about it, that made them practice and get better? There are a whole bunch of smaller questions: What did they “like”? Habit machines need some value to be intrinsically driven. Were practice material, space and time readily available? How did they figure out the growth thing? Were there other factors as external or extrinsic forces? Was this an escape or an intentional undertaking?
Did you like school? I liked school and always found a way to like it. I knew it would make learning the material easier. I sought out what interested me and made a game of what I was graded on. I never developed so much “like”, I put in extra time and energy. No so much that I practiced and got better and people said: “You are so talented!” >>No. Has anyone ever said you were talented?
“Make the best of it!” is a common saying. Were you ever taught how to do that? I don’t remember ever being taught. I guess I was assumed to be smart enough to figure it out or suffer the consequences. From what I’m gathering, a lot of students are suffering the consequences. They don’t know how to “like” school. They are not even close to making the best of school.
For young people looking for a job, I’ve heard: “It’s more important to focus on what you are going to learn or become on a job, than what you are going to get paid.” It’s like you are supposed to go out and find jobs that are going to grow and develop you. Sounds pretty smart! Then you will get free training and education and latter get the BIG Buck$. What if we suggested this for schools. Teachers teach students how to be talented. The student, not the teacher, should be finding the project or gym to practice and get train in the learning. The student, not the teacher, should make the learning, practice and growth fun and exciting. The student, not the teacher, should find or create ways to like or get intrinsically rewarded. So much, he does extra practice and struggles through the growth. Yikes! Could “training to be talented” be trained in schools?
Euripides — 'When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.' Do you know how to get too much love? Not, me! I’m still working on it! It’s this struggle that brings values as worthiness and honor. Now, as a students, I was so used to being spoon-fed (excess help) I just figured I was too stupid and couldn’t get all that education (Love). I just couldn’t and didn’t struggle at all. In fact, I just let them do all the work of teaching me and I got distracted by other things. Why try? If it was meant to be, I could get it, but didn’t need to! You might say I am fully potentiated to get worthiness and honor, but not allowed!
Was I supposed to put myself in some gym and practice this? Was I supposed to find ways to “like” all this pain and failure? Well, after a few failures and unrelenting pain, I reverted to: If it was meant to be, it would be easier! This isn’t me! I mean, do you put yourself in a situation you know you could possible get really hurt?
Can you imagine a person who leaves school and he has been taught and trained to take on a challenge when it faces him. They know how to get themselves to “like” the challenge enough to learn it, practice and grow to master it. They know how to find the materials, gym, time and energy to make it all happen! And they were trained and taught how to do this since kindergarten. They, the student, would find the “like” enough to learn, practice and grow to master the challenge. Kids might be filled with fun and laughter, but in their quiet moments, honor and worthiness might have some value (whether they know what they are or not).
Kindergarten teachers make learning so much fun. Cold they ask for ideas on how to make learning a lesson fun and exciting? Yes! And kindergarteners would have plenty of ideas. What about how they could practice or learn? With a little help and suggestions this seems possible. Could this be extended to more grades, such that by the time kids are in 4th or 5th grade they are masters at finding ways to learn and make practicing material. WOW! Maybe this is just the catalyst needed to expose our talented kids. Oh, that’s right research is showing those talented kid (people) just practice more than the average and grew themselves, compared to the normal non practicer, to amazing heights. It’s all about the practice and growth? What do you avidly like, find ways to practice and develop yourself.
My apologies to all single ladies and working women. When I grew up all Moms were thought to bake some special recipes that were amazing (talented). Maybe, cookies, chicken, lasagna, smoothies … something. Now, the rumor is most young brides can’t boil water. So the fledgling Mom cooks and her ravenous growing children eat no matter what she give them. She loves them a pays attention to what each likes and finds ways to express her love and make them feel loved! She has to cook (before fast food era, maybe around the time of dinosaurs). She cooks and cooks and cooks driven to grow by this love. All of sudden she is the master chef and should sell her stuff, she’d make millions! She is extremely talented practiced. (PS Love is overflowing here, but not in excess! She has honor and worthiness! Thank you Mom!)
Lite my fire! Demands the children to their teachers! I say, let him lite his own fire. Hey you can teach how to do it, but it is up to him. Teach me! They demand. Teach them parents demand. I say let them teach themselves. Let them even find the material, gym and energy to do it. Hey, you can give them some help when they are young, but not the ones older than 10 years old. They know where to get the information, they haven’t developed enough “like” to do it. I’ve seen a 5 year old use a cell phone and do amazing things! This 5 year old had enough “like” to go for it.
Our talented students are being disguised and hidden by our schools. Pole student from K to 12. Do you like school? What do you think you will find? Maybe: lower grades liking school and upper grades not liking school. It seems to indicate School is teaching or training students to not like school. When teaching is in excess, it brings a student no honor, no worthiness. Students need to be trained to teach themselves, develop the like themselves. Students need to be able to take on a challenge, educate, grow and practice themselves such that they can have honor and worthiness!
Parents, principals, teachers need to expose their talented students. They need to train their students to find ways to “like” the challenge given to them. Life doesn’t search and play around trying to lite our fires! We have to find the “like” and lite our own fires, practice, train, learn and grow and become talented masters. Hey, take a Mom out to dinner and asked her how she did it! Mom, taught herself or got the help. Student can teach themselves find and get the help too! All your students are truly hidden talented students. We need to give them a chance to have honor and worthiness!
It is going to be exciting! You are going to love watching your students. It like watching weight-lifters at the gym. When it’s their turn, they know exactly what they are doing. They put on the weights like badges of honor. They know they are going for a goal. The love it! They push into the “burn” like it is some chocolate chip cookie. The push. They go no matter how they did. They know and feel going for it is part of their wonderful path. They are already planning and preparing for their next turn. It’s up to them! … honor and worthiness is theirs.
This isn’t how it is for everyone! You got me. It’s not that way for the people who are forced by some diet or should drive. They hate going to the gym. They only go because they have to. They have never learned the skill of making the challenge put before them fun, exciting, rewarding in itself. Their habit has no intrinsic drive. It is only driven by external pain or pleasure.
Student going to school, adults going to work don’t not know how to make the challenge that seems to be put before them have intrinsically drive. They don’t know how to put the “like” in. “Like” enough they grow and master it and move one! They dread putting on the weights and look for ways to get out of it or do less than they should and still get credit. This is a kindergarten skill, that teachers, parents have stolen from our training in the name of passing some knowledge test. “I’m smart, ... if someone will just teach me!” Teach yourself! That’s what the talented students did. They liked the challenge for whatever reason and got hooked taught themselves, trained themselves and developed to a level past their years.
Weight lifters are always going about playing with ways of training. How to build the fastest? How to keep the balance? What schedule? How fast? What to eat and how much and when? Can you imagine going into your classroom and being the conveyor or connector of training methods, if you had to? Students would be sponges, trying and perfecting trainings to amass their vocabulary muscle, their history pectoralis, their math dead-lift, their language arts oiled physique! You could step back in your room and just smell the learning going on! Hear the dead-lift thud as a student grasped a concept. Hear the steady hum of the practice and deliberating minds. A place where a student can can have honor and worthiness!
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