Focus on education

Focus on education | When talking about education, the majority of our focus is on how the process of teaching and learning materials. In school, we talk and focus the discussion on teachers and teaching. In the homeschooling, enthusiasts are always asking how to teach children. They are worried because they can not teach difficult material to children.


As if, the central of education is to teach with teachers / parents to do the job. And that was the conventional wisdom about education that emphasizes the knowledge transfer process from an external authority (teachers / parents) to children.

This view is partly rooted in the philosophical understanding that "the child is a blank paper" so that the duty of adults is to fill in the blank paper.

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That view is not a one-on-one perspective on education. More modern outlook to emphasize that the educational process should be more focused on the process of learning that children do.

Children are not blank paper, but an individual who also has his own will. Education does not only mean the transfer of knowledge, but in its true meaning is unleash the potential of the child.

Quoting Robert T. Kiyosaki, education in native language "educare" means issued. So, it is actually meaningful education issued potentials given by God to a child.

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By changing our paradigm about the education of "fill in the blank paper" to unleash the full potential ", we are actually doing an important shift. Seemingly simple change that fundamental fact.

Many things will change over the shift, among others:

the focus of education is not a teacher / parent, but children
the focus of activities is not to teach, but to learn
evaluation focused not on mastery of the material, but the discharge potential
child is not forced to conform to the curriculum, but the curriculum is intended to serve the potential of children
active not a teacher / parent, but children
directions activity is not top-down but bottom-up
The main function of the teacher / parent rather than as a source of knowledge, but as a facilitator
etc

I do not know how the idea of ​​this kind of interaction in the context of schools at this time the focus and the model is basically a "teaching".

But in the context of homeschooling, the views were like this is not new. The views were like this and very helpful homeschooling parents through the process of education at home.

By shifting the paradigm of education, then the process undertaken homeschooling becomes easier to execute, without compromising the quality of education. The psychological burden on the inability to teach difficult material can be eliminated because the focus of education is more geared to unleash the potential of children and facilitate the child become independent learners