H. Giant #3 - Society, Schools, Culture, Parents, friends and the status quo
Children, I know you blame me and you have every right. I apologize. I meant to train you, raise you to be the person who could go out there and take on the world, …… but I didn’t. I guess, I failed you. I really didn’t ever figure out how to take on the world myself. How was I ever supposed to train someone else to do it. I don’t know how to train either. I never even trained a dog to sit. What was I thinking I could train you successfully. I should have gotten the clue I needed...
Come in quietly, sit down and get ready to learn be programed. Follow direction and do as you are told. We, creatures of habit, are trained and programed by our parents, families, schools, churches, society, advertising, media, accidents, situations and more. That’s just it. We are creatures of habit and we are meant to be trained or programed on how to think, feel, experience and do. Deep breath, that’s just who we are. Now the only question is: Who do you want to program, train or build...
Your wrong! … and my wife’s teachers never told her how to fix what she got wrong. She was just wrong. When she became an elementary school teacher, she made sure her students found out how to grow and improve. Can you imagine a baby at home learning how to walk and the baby falls and the parents get all excited and put a big red check on the diaper where the baby fell! Parents don’t do that, do they? No, parents don’t even see the fall they see the attempt, the little growth. They see...
Groups! Get into your groups! I hated groups. We never got anything done in groups! It was a big waste of time being with people you didn’t want to be with. And they tout: be the leader. Yeh, right, and have to do all the work. Everybody always did as little as possible in class and now that the teacher wasn’t in charge, they could do less. Goal, what’s our goal? To do as little as possible! Oh, the goal we are supposed to have or come up with, that’s just a joke. Groups are such a...
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...
What habits would you like your students to have? If you were a teacher, an educator, professor, what student habits would let you complete your job better? Come into class, quietly sit down and get ready to learn? Like school or like learning habit? Pay attention habit? Follow direction habit? Reading habit? Taking notes habit? Organization habit? Understanding habit? Thinking habit? Writing habit? Project or presentation habit? Clean up and put things away habit? I’m sure there are more,...
Is it the Murder “of” Mediocrity? Or is it the Murder “by” Mediocrity? Is Mediocrity being killed, …… or is Mediocrity killing that special uniqueness of who we are? I couldn’t decide? I just love the idea of profiling and figuring the habit machines of the criminal. This criminal’s habit machine always kills on a Tuesday after the full moon. Why? What triggers that? How was this machine developed? The victim is always killed in a certain way and the body posed in special...