My hand should be bleeding from typing.
Jean-jacques rousseau created an imaginary student which would be named the free and happy student. Which in his eyes was thee ideal student, his motivation for learning would be curiousity. This student was named emile. Jean actually put his childeren in an orphanage so he could succumb to this imaginary student. This student had no discipline, no restrictions, he was basically conjured for one reason. To justify freedom of your education and learning. You would think that this student would be happy, more so than a normal student. Being that emile only had to learn things that appealed to him... yet did he know that this educational system prevented him from learning all together. Hed shrug off other forms of knowledge, because he felt no interest. Which would limit him from learning, he had no structure, he had the beams but no bolts. With this process he would eventually end up investing more into the imaginary and things that only appealed to him and that made sense. More so the imaginary because they were in his head. He would develop a hate for his educational system cause he would be subjected to discipline, the one thing that would remove his freedom and give him a work ethic. So he takes an anti-intellectual stance, and he defends himself with the question of how valueable knowledge really is. thus him ceasing to learn.
On that emphasis you would probably think maybe we do need discipline? Maybe we do need a work ethic.. yet again we come to limitations.. from discipline and work ethic. Given disicpline you build a structure for yourself and at the same time build limitations, you feel there is only one way to learn. You have your ethic to work with and in no way does it require divorcing yourself from the perceptions in which creativity come from.
What would be the ideal student? How could we learn free and happy, but still yield creativity and discipline? With both of these examples here all I can come to say is that self education is the only way. Then again who will tell you when you should and shouldnt be doing something or how you should or shouldnt be doing it? Does it basically boil down to who the person is in a whole? Does this depend on if they have a first rate mind or a 2nd rate mind? Is this determined by there comprehension level? How do we go about deciding when people are overrun with anxieties and whatnot? Personally I dont think there is an ideal student, they all work together in their own ways. You have your discplined ones who are the structure, then you have your builders, the creative ones. Working all together you make the structure.. could this ever be put into one person?
These are both extreme cases of "ideal" students, Im trying to get help on my ideas and contrast them. Only ideas..
On that emphasis you would probably think maybe we do need discipline? Maybe we do need a work ethic.. yet again we come to limitations.. from discipline and work ethic. Given disicpline you build a structure for yourself and at the same time build limitations, you feel there is only one way to learn. You have your ethic to work with and in no way does it require divorcing yourself from the perceptions in which creativity come from.
What would be the ideal student? How could we learn free and happy, but still yield creativity and discipline? With both of these examples here all I can come to say is that self education is the only way. Then again who will tell you when you should and shouldnt be doing something or how you should or shouldnt be doing it? Does it basically boil down to who the person is in a whole? Does this depend on if they have a first rate mind or a 2nd rate mind? Is this determined by there comprehension level? How do we go about deciding when people are overrun with anxieties and whatnot? Personally I dont think there is an ideal student, they all work together in their own ways. You have your discplined ones who are the structure, then you have your builders, the creative ones. Working all together you make the structure.. could this ever be put into one person?
These are both extreme cases of "ideal" students, Im trying to get help on my ideas and contrast them. Only ideas..