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Imagine if education was changed to exploration

Posted on by philipdodson

What if we allowed children to explore rather than to be educated?

Currently, ‘education’ is about passing tests.

These tests were constructed by the system to prepare cogs for the industrialised machine to enable the owners of the machine to know that the cogs are of a certain ‘acceptable’ standard.

Testing roots out the thinkers, the crazies, the creative, the curious and shapes all for a lifetime of compliance. After all, who wants anyone to question anything, certainly not what school is for.

What if we scrapped the tests and allowed children to explore, to be curious, to be ‘crazy’, to find their meaning or purpose and then assist them to do that? Freedom to allow their imagination to roam, to day dream, to just try things and allow the magic to unfold.

Just an idea and surely better than keep producing cogs for somebody else’s machine.

Exam Results

Posted on by philipdodson


Today is the day for exam results. 

Many will be happy and many will be disappointed. 

I’m disappointed that we have a culture that measures a young human being’s worth by their achievements in a test. 

No results will determine your life, unless you allow it. Perhaps, we could all lead change by not being disappointed in our children, it will not result in anything good. 

It will only perpetuate this cycle of results = worth. 

For those who are disappointed by their results today, use that to manage your expectations going forward and remember you’re already worthy regardless of your work. 

Education is not gained at the industrialised systems education factories only compliance and preparation for a lifetime of servitude.