We need to have an educational revolution. Politicians and Mr. Money have controlled our educational system for over a century and it's time that we, the people, take over our own education. We should decide what an education is and how we want to get our education and what our children's education should be. The problem is that educators have been advocating for decades big changes to what and how we teach in the schools, but no one does anything about changing the system. Politicians and big money control a required curriculum for every person in our nation and they control the type of instruction we receive in order to learn the curriculum. The state is controlling what and how we learn and so they control us. The state is taking away our freedom by controlling us as children and throughout our lives. They make us go to a school and follow their orders, learn what they say to learn, do what they tell us to do, and make us do things when they say so. Our children's time is controlled by the state along with their minds. We were once children who were trapped in the educational system and we went along because we didn't know any other possibility. We have been effectively brain-washed into thinking this brain-washing system we refer to as our schools is normal.
What I see as an educational revolution is all of us taking control of our own education and the education of our children. I don't mean that we just physically seize the school buildings and take armed control of them. I mean changing the curriculum and instruction so that each person creates his/her own education and decides on what to learn and how to learn it. Each person should determine their own curriculum and instruction. We need to stop letting politicians tell educators how to be educators. That's like them telling medical doctors how to do their job and control the medical profession. I have been in education for over 40 years and in higher education for over 20 years. I know that most educators believe in a constructivist learning approach but they do not know how to implement such an approach when our entire system controls curriculum and instruction.
So we need a revolution. We need to create a national constructivist educational system. I won't go through a long and formal definition and explanation of constructivism, but I will say that in this approach children decide on what they will learn and they decide on how they like to learn. Children create their own educational goals and objectives along with their parents and teachers. The children, parents, and teachers also decide upon individualized instruction as well. So the options for children are not limited by state controlled expectations and tests. When the state controls testing of our children, then they control the curriculum and they control their minds.
We have a lot to do in this revolution and it has to start by our present teachers, administrators, professors of higher education, and all educational professionals must take the educational system away from politicians and business. Our children deserve freedom. Freedom to learn and freedom to think. A constructivist educational system needs to replace the current education of controlled curriculum and instruction.
Teachers and administrators in local schools should create their own constructivist school and implement without asking for permission. We have the right to create our own education and we have a right to create our own public schools. We don't need the state or federal OK. A local school has the right to create a fully constructivist school without using any of the state's curriculum guidelines, instructional expectations, and testing. Just refuse to give any mandated tests to your students. A school should create a constructivist school so that every child and parent creates an individualized curriculum and instructional plan. They can also plan how to evaluate and improve upon their own educational goals as time goes on. This can be done and it's long past time for it to happen.
So, teachers, go out their and talk your principal into creating a constructivist school!!!!
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