We Are We

May 29, 2007 at 9:05pm |

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I've been looking at the International Baccalaureate recently and have marveled how much different it is than the education I got and saw others get while growing up (which was mostly rules joined together with disconnected rules and bad measurement and siloed subjects so apart from each other they never meet).

Now I know why I chose to self-study and autodidactism in high school, and a specialist program in undergrad, and then Naropa for graduate school:

1. My high school experience was DIY because of lack of cohesion and rigor
2. My undergrad was 'specialist' because that's the only way I could achieve academic continuity
3. And Naropa, of course, because they "teach the whole person" along with the contemplative aspect which dared to ask the questions "Who?" and "Why?" then answered "Us" and "the Earth we live on".

Reminds me also of what Lorenzo Thomas told me once:

There is no "us and them".
There is only us and
"we are we".

Which was true and I thanked him for it.

Anyway that IB program buzz is what I want to teach and wish I had it as a student, not just because it's precisely Swiss or European, but because it is what it is. I mean fantastic to treat students like students and to let them learn even more fantastic and mesmerizing! (The schools where I taught in the United States were very much built and run like prisons.)

Tell me, how was your school experience?

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