She is the perfect student. Her clothes are pressed and neat, totally professional at age 12. Her hair is mostly braided or in a pony tail to keep it out of her face. But when it is down, she is so serene that she never fiddles with it.
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Math is everywhere we look. We are governed by laws, laws we didn’t just make up, laws provable through the absolute finality of math, its indisputable truth…
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From our earliest days in school, before we are even aware that we exist, we learn that it feels really good when you get work back with an A on top. We learn to love those As. Pretty soon, we become distressed if we don’t get an A. Or if we never get an A, we can become fearful or apathetic.
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Imagine that you are a kid, full of beans. You want to get into your body and feel your blood and the exhilaration that comes from challenges physical and mental at the same time? What will you do? Paint? play jumprope? bang on a drum? Or climb the rock climbing wall?
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This toxic triangle of relationships is guaranteed to injure all. Systems are not what they used to be. These days, there are experts at organization who look at the relational fields established in different types of structures. They create relational fields which work.
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The grades are negotiated between the facilitator and student. When everybody feels the project meets the criteria set out to measure our goal attainment, it is deemed acceptable, and we move on, feeling great about our project.
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Another day and I didn’t use trigonometry once, again. Have you ever felt like most of what you were required to learn in school was completely useless and irrelevant to life? Maybe there were bits and pieces that were new, exciting, and interested you, but there were probably hours and hours you spent learning things, seemingly with no point.
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Driving ourselves into success seems to be a mandate of our culture. The puritan founders extolled that “If you aren’t suffering, you aren’t working hard enough.” In the traditional classroom, teachers set the bar for the students to strive to attain. Some soar, but some struggle, some can’t.
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