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Articles by Daniel Yordy

• Teenagers - You Could Direct Your Own Education
  Can I really be in charge of my own learning? It is your life.
  
  
• Fictional Learning - Some Ways Modern Schooling is Not Real
  I make the claim that much of modern schooling is fiction. What do I mean by that? Actually there are many fictional aspects to what we do to our children all rolled into one. Each of these unreal pressures is operating on a child in the educational system all at the same time.
  
  
• Fictional Learning - Always Surrounded by Kids
  Every one of us quickly learns to cope with the reality of the world we find ourselves in as it presents itself to us. Every single child sitting inside the 'world' of the modern classroom very quickly learns the 'rules' and how to survive inside those 'rules.' It is the rules created by the child's peer group, not by the adults, that rule the day.
  
  
• Fictional Learning - Children Are Simply Not Needed
  A second realm of fiction in modern education is the valuation of the child. We do not need children. They are in the way and something must be done with them. Children are not necessary for our economic lives. We don't need them to get the food on the table or to provide shelter or to help defend the village.
  
  
• Fictional Learning - Years of Labor in the Trash
  The next fictional aspect of modern education is the actual work we give our children to do. From the time a child enters the school system, public or private, to the time they leave, all work that they do, for all those long years, is thrown into the trash can as soon as it is finished.
  
  
• Fictional Learning - Assembly Lines and Warehouses
  Another bit of fiction we weave into our childrens' lives, calling it 'school,' is the physical environment through which they pass the years of their childhood. We place them in huge, ugly warehouses, isolated from all other people and all real-world productivity. Life is ruled by bells, by strict time periods, by separated and unrelated rooms, by chopped up and unrelated activities.

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