“Once learners understand the learning process as a matter of constructing their own meaning, acquiring knowledge becomes a fundamentally different process. At present, students experience school as a situation in which they try to incorporate someone else’s ideas into their existing understanding by means of memory. This is hard and tedious, and for some students, implicitly humiliating work.
As individuals construct their own understanding instead of accepting the understandings provided by authorities, they find themselves in dialogue with all texts, all ideas, all experience, all of reality. This is empowering, exciting, invigorating work.”
- Michael Strong, The Habit of Thought
As individuals construct their own understanding instead of accepting the understandings provided by authorities, they find themselves in dialogue with all texts, all ideas, all experience, all of reality. This is empowering, exciting, invigorating work.”
- Michael Strong, The Habit of Thought
We have no grades, teachers or regular classes; the horror!
We do not receive classes like in traditional education systems, we do not have traditional teachers nor grades. Instead we have honest and genuine self-evaluations (we are the ones damaged if we do not complete our work consciously), we are our own teachers through collaborative work and dialogues. We do attend lectures though, and listen to experts.