Student Focused Education

As you've probably learned by now, "individualized education" is something I am a huge supporter of. I truly believe a child's ability to learn is dependent on his will to learn, which is tied to their interest.

Now, by no means do I mean that we should ONLY teach what the kids want to learn. Far from it. What we need is to show kids from an early age what a joy learning really is, and then CONTINUE to do so throughout their lives.

This article on Student Centered Schooling mentioned an extremely important fact, when kids want to learn for themselves, they need the responsibility to handle it.

Again, this is where my nigh-worshiped Montessori system comes in. Liberal education, with some guidance, allows students to constantly experience and garner that "responsibility" factor of learning for yourself. This, more than anything, is what truly prepared me for success in high school.

I truly believe that if we were to keep that independent quest to learn, student success would grow exponentially!