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Geography, Arts, Education, Engineering, Sociology, Psychology, Technology.

An idea worth spreading

What makes the education needs re-evaluation overtime is due to the failure of managing learning distractions and learning enrichment.

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Developing ideas.

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First time going to this web site and watch TED story. Surely suppose to be my place long a ago :)

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• A comment on Conversation: Can we sustain the population AND the ecosystem without converting to vegetarianism?

  Apr 30 2011: Vegetarianism is not the answer to sustaining ecosystem. There are causes and effects that we need to consider when dealing with human instincts and activities that impact our populations and ecosystem. Demand for meats that balance the growth of animals that has high production rate such as cows and pigs. However, due to our non-demand of rats. I mean mostly, there are rats everywhere. We are lucky that rats maximum life span is low (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_life_span). On the other hand, our demands for staple food like wheat, barley, and rice and other vegetables has impaired our precious forest and wet lands. Whether we control through sustainable logging activities and fight for resources through wars, our ecosystem will be diminished from time to time.
  
  We could try but our next generation will suffer from the imbalanced of our ecosystem and over population. We could not stop the population rate and wars, just prepare for the worse and pray for the best.
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  A reply on Conversation: If raising children is one of the most important things we do in society, shouldn't the subject be directly taught in schools?

  Apr 30 2011: I fairly agree with Elwin's consideration but I don't think that skills are only most beneficial until we acquire children of our own. Looking back to the title of this discussion; "If raising children is one of the most important things we do in society, shouldn't the subject be directly taught in schools?", it looks like the practical aspects are projected. For me, the question of how should the subject be implemented (indirectly or directly) in schools is more appropriate. Based on psychological and sociological aspects in learning, we could think of the following scratchy outlines as some kind of teaching ideas:
  1. Age 4-6 : Injecting ideas of love and caring through direct treatment and media.
  2. Age 7-10: Teaching children why they need to love their father and mother and understand how hard to take care of them or their brothers and sisters (if they have ones).
  3. Age 11-13: Teaching how they could improve their relationship with their parents by certain helping activities at home e.g. Help father wash their car, helping mother to bake cakes or changing diapers of their small baby sister, etc.
  4. Age 14-17: Social Skills and Sex Education. Help understand the common gender differences in terms of physical capabilities, socializing, and emotions. The importance and responsibility in marriage. Sex education in terms of biological and social aspects.
  5. Age 18++: Social and Family models by civilizations, religions, and cultures from historical developments to the globalization era. Parenting skills.
  
  We could not predict the exact results for our effort but how we deliver the positive ideology tho the minds or the people and give them enough knowledge to prepare are all that matters.

• A comment on Conversation: If raising children is one of the most important things we do in society, shouldn't the subject be directly taught in schools?

  Apr 26 2011: Very interesting topic. Though I am real busy, I need to involve in this conversation. I am 42 and married with 4 children. It takes me around 13 years as to become a calmer person and understanding the expectation and unexpected. This is really good idea and it could be useful as a driver in sex education in school. This is the point where we should concern who is going to do the first initiative; government, parents, or schools?
  
  Government is doing it under their social department or ministry but it is more toward the adults and still we are leaving the younger ones and going-to-be fathers or mothers struggling for best methods or even worse years in guessing. Raising children actually takes a lot of sacrifice in terms of time and concentration. If you are geek, busy business person, working mother, etc. as a long if you think that you have yet another more important things than raising children, well you need knowledge of how to leverage your priorities and effectively manage your time for the sake of your "Jewels".
  
  But the thing is that most people are naturally or instinctively reluctance to change on their behavior, believe, and common sense. A good CEO may not be a good father and a bartender could be the best mother. It is about our childhood background and the experiences that we took along the live path. We learned informally about love and affections, and then realize the importance of raising children. People minds and hearts are complex. Experience of failures and successes that really thought us what we are and that are the things that really push people for changes. If from early life we, at the slightest moment, have the ideas of love, affection, caring, important of making others become importance, then we could dealt with marriage and raising children in better ways.
  
  A careful plan must involve many aspects of teaching, psychology, and sociology. What experience that we need to inject this ideology within age-range or category of students? tbc.