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"When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school,
it's a wonder I can think at all. "
~ Paul Simon 

“Erziehung war bis heute Zielorientiert. Was du lernst, ist unwichtig. Wichtig ist die Prüfung....damit wird die Zukunft wichtiger als die Gegenwart...du opferst ständig diesen Augenblick für etwas, das nicht gegenwärtig ist. Das erzeugt eine ungeheure Leere im Leben.”
~ Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990)

"A school can be an excellent place for some children and totally unsuitable for others."
~ Lisa Delpit

The need for knowledge has to be aligned in the top tier of human needs (adapted after Maslow and Gassler). All basic needs, as indicated in the pyramid, have to be met first to achieve happiness, before one can concentrate on learning in school.

Seven Caring Habits (Glasser)
Supporting
Encouraging
Listening
Accepting
Trusting
Respecting
Negotiating Differences

"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."

~ Maria Montessori

KEEPING OUR CHILDREN SAFE IN SCHOOL AND SEC. 9528 OF THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT --> Dear Superintendant Of Schools...

"I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote 'Savage Inequalities,' and that segregation is now back at the point where it was when I published my first book" ~ Jonathan Kozol (1936 -)

Choose Your School – Choose Your Life

Tyrone's Tentative Teaching Philosophy

Educators for Social Responsibility

Prophylactic Peace Education

Peace Education Center - Teachers College

United Nations - Peace Education

Bloom's Taxonomy

Should we allow the WAR to finance our education? "each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings."

Military Recruitment in Schools: "Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents object. "The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."

"As is true for most people I know, I’ve always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?" ~ Derrick Jensen (1960 - )

Tyrone's University Webquests

„Unsere sogenannte Erziehung macht die Menschen traurig und ernst. Und wenn ihr ein Drittel eures Lebens in den Schulen damit vergeudet, traurig und ernst zu sein, hinterläßt das seine Spuren”
~ Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-1990)