Why Children Need Opportunities In Order To Achieve
We are wasting our talents with our mistaken understood certify that we have the capacity to administrate what to teach at schools. We are losing our talents by not stimulating today's apprentices. Those that need methods appropriate to the XXI Century. A race against time has begun, since our students / children are not the apprentices we once were. They are much, much more capable!
Today's children search for information in a holistic fashion. And it is not just in theory or rhetoric! It's the truth! They see the whole picture without having to look at every detail. It is not the sum of the parts that equals the whole thing. It's the whole thing that they see, not in detriment to the knowledge of the parts that gives meaning to what they see. Hard to follow? Well, let's see. Compare the way that apprentices from the present decade different from those from the 80s when facing a computer. Observe the way they look at the screen nowdays. And compare to what you remember from the past. They do not search the screen from left to right, or right to left in order to see and unforgettable all elements involved in the figure. They gaze upon the whole screen and reason in a holistic manner. They consider everything at the same time. So the ability to solve problems at a pace that blows us away! This is only an example and it is determining! They 'scan' to see, live and understand. The brains tends to function looking at the whole picture and the schools still insist in showing them sectioned parts of reality.
The children have brains that see the whole, and today's world needs complete men, composing parts of reality, more competent and complex beings. There is no more room for incompetence, for it cripples and discriminates. We need to urgently prepare ourselves to help this new being that is here. He / she is your son / daughter, my grandchild, our great-grandchildren and all our students. We need to prepare bees that will know how to resolve problems and that have the liberty to create, starting from school, and from our own homes. Let us interrupt this sinister influence that communication has on our children that learn what they should not either like like it or not. The only thing we can do is to not underestimate the children's capacity, help them at home and demand from the governments better schools.
What's left for us to do in face of this obstacle imposed these intelligent, childish, developing beings that challenge us with their infinite learning abilities? What is the human being's solution in order to deal with these children that think completely differently, these present-day children, miracles of all civilizations?
It is through them that we will prepare the humanity to come. Through them we shall preserve life on Earth and guarantee peace among all peoples. We must cultivate with them faith in the future on Earth. It is there necessary that we promote for them the opportunity to pursue the infinite urge that they feel to create, love and produce inside and outside the school. To manufacture the new: solutions for present problems, solutions to end war, illiteracy, starvation, and also the practice of love and good among men.
We need human beings with insight, wisdom, honesty (respect toward others), integrity, flexibility, creativity, intention, love towards life in general (other men, animals and nature), and faith in the future and in preserving life.
We can not stop teaching logic (how long ago did logic stop being taught?), Language and numbers. But in a way that the child is stimulated to create and build his / her contents based upon the content given, respecting his / her cognitive practices, abilities and individual talents.
The schools need to be equipped with high technology, with laboratories for learning through activities, with groups for musical practice and theatrical executions, with body-movement practices, kinesthetic activities, with activities that provide the possibility of executing actions that require interpersonal and intrapersonal decisions . We need to give the children the opportunity to participate in projects to exercise their leadership, so that they can learn to play roles, to reflect on world literature, as well as different cultures and also to reflect on the world outside the school itself. They must understand that they are only a few more creatures in this world, but that they can make an incredible difference through their participation in solving the world's problems.
We must give the children the opportunity of insertion and survival in a complex, savage capitalist, and not-at-all naive society, in which the control of all economic activities require that they know and dominate the language of their country, away from other languages of other cultures. We must aim their logic-mathematic preparations, besides providing them with the opportunity to fulfill their special abilities, and answer their economic and financial questionings. We have to rescue them from the line-of-fire of those that become victims of the social system as it is today. They will have to know how to survive !!
It is necessary that, where there are children, there will be an adult knowing that right there are the miracles of civilization that are apt to learn everything they see, hear, read and observe. These miracles that are biologically and cognitively ready to be attended and recognized in their very needs and talents.
Let us love our children. They are prospects of life that may be the best of which we could have imagined in present times. All we have to do is give them the opportunity to figure out their own paths.
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Source by Eliane Leao
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
