Members Laika Britz

Nov 2 2009: "Science helps us live longer, better and healthier lives" ..., what makes you live longer is education thru knowledge achieved. What make you happier, a mind who realized, it is do what you love. Could be art, could be science, could be teaching art or science. So what make you happy is more like to be linked with art, with intuition, with love and can be found anywhere even in a starving mind.or in a mind so poor, which can never afford to use all that amazing technology science might have.
So perhaps the most important one is the education, you can have the best training to be a teacher and what will make you an amazing teacher? your natural skill making you able to connect to the minds and make them connect to what you say. Education is like art and science, as friend said is like designer. it is maniqueist believe one is better than other or more important . both belong to our nature both belong to our skill able to change the world. We must build a new education system

Nov 1 2009: I wonder why we have to learn in different subjects. Why can we learn science and arts together? All the structure does not have a sense except to sell the product of education to parents(reminding here education in many countries is a very profitable business, including all the academics institutions), who most does not understand about education or children development.
At the public sector education is more lnked with winning the next election, and again does not have child as focus but their parents who will vote.
I think education subject and child development should be teach at secondary / high school, so adolescents can start to think about and have the tools to make the change .
Your point of subjects should be stressed equally, it is just because parents prefer children learning time tables when they are 5then drawing. Everyone who knows about brain development knows their brain are not ready to learn time tables, and drawing could be much more important when they are5.

Nov 1 2009: It is very motivational!
Although nothing that new on it. Steiner, Montessori, Vigotsky, Ericksson, Neils, Anna Freud, and so many thinkers had spoken about the educational system being a academic, copycat and not a thinking space or a place where a child should explore and create. All the "liberal" schools were very criticized, but actually they built something more humanistic and more focus on creative mind. If you grew up in a "conventional" school just visit the "liberal" schools, you might find one very close to your home.

It is interesting how cognitive thinkers denied other thinkers from different epistemological believes. Finally we are getting back to the 19th century questioning emotion value again.

If we focus on profits, all the educational structure is based on the most profitable subjects - pharmaceutic industry and technology. It was never the focus of the well being of a child(reminding the pharmaceutic and technology industries are very uch linked to army industry).

Nov 1 2009: It is very motivational! Although nothing new on it. Steiner, Montessori, Vigotsky, Ericksson, Neils, Anna Freud, and so many thinkers had spoken about the educational system being a academic, copycat and not a thinking space or a place where a child should explore and create. All the "liberal" schools were very criticized, but actually they built something more humanistic and more focus on creative mind. If you grew up in a "conventional" school just visit the "liberal" schools, you might find one very close to your home.

It is interesting how cognitive thinkers denied other thinkers from different epistemological believes. Finally we are getting back to the 19th century questioning emotion value again.