Students should be trained to assigning themselves homework, of course! They are in charge of their education and practice and training allows for learning. They should be trained to monitor their progress and reward themselves. It should not be the teacher responsibility to monitor their progress and reward them. They are the ones that have to live and thrive with the habit machine and education they are building.
At high school graduation, students should have the habit machine and education that can build habit machines, guided by themselves. Their habit machine should be value based and purpose driven. They should have the machinery for training and building habit machines and developing their education as: assigning themselves homework, monitoring themselves, giving themselves reward intrinsically and extrinsically, input machines (reading, listening), analysis machines, planning and strategizing machines, activation and training machines, ……. And many more.
The teachers major job is to get students taking over their education and building of their habit machines as quickly as possible. The teachers job is to help them develop the tools of effective and efficient habit machine building. The teachers job is to help them see, rejoice and stay on the road to success (abundant failure and small wins that if held on to add up). The teachers job is to help them grow from the safe place to the dangerous real world. (to be successful, you need family and friends, to be very successful you need enemies and competitors, Charlie Chaplin) The real dangerous and distracting world is where it all happens. We can’t make the world easier, we can only make ourselves stronger and more effective.
A high school graduation should be a license “to be able to do and become anything I want to be, in the real world” Knowledge is the touted elixir, but the habit machines or character of a person tells the true story. The ability to grow and develop their habit machines or character will far outlast the most advanced knowledge.
Can you imagine high school graduates that have habits of actively building and developing themselves. Giving themselves homework and throw themselves into their development. Monitor, analyze and make use of their knowledge to take the next step. they strategize and plan to make sure they stay on the road to success and reward themselves for this. Who they are and who they are becoming is what they are responsible for. They took it from their teachers, parents, society and claimed full responsibility for it. They have the habit of going for it and making lots of mistakes, but attempt to learn from them. They have the habit of cleaning up any messes they cause. They have fears and weaknesses, but they are not stopped by them. They are not fighting with life but learning to work with it and move it forward with them. Acceptance, forgiveness, love and appreciation lets them be great givers and producers. The world is better because of them.
Different priorities, different values, different ways of doing, thinking and feeling all gives aliveness and possibilities. The chaos these differences, advertise for life and must be worked out. As humans, the uniqueness and importance of each of us, is the challenge in life. Life is not fair, there is no one right way, yet there is that which is right and wrong. This right and wrong judgement we may surmise, but in the end our righteousness may be enlightened by new perspective. We do the best we can, then we need to either celebrate or forgive and move on. Being on the road to success, where there is abundant failures and only small wins, is the place to be in life. Hanging on to the small wins and building a success is Great, but getting there, the journey, being on the road of success is amazing. That’s the training of a high school graduate.
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