“The
path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect,
and it’s rarely a straight line.”
Children learn many
things in life and take these things along them even to old age.
Day in, day out, the
world is changing and almost all the changes in the world are caused by man.
Since life is not static, children need to be taught and get development in
certain areas that would instill into them subject disciplines that would be
with them for the rest of their lives and for which they could pass unto
generations after them.
"Tell me and I
forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
·
Principles
Educational Academy, where students would have lessons in:
o
Ethics which should cover the values of
integrity, transparency, honesty, trust, discrimination and racism, etc.
o
Cultural differences and tolerance for
all other cultures.
o
Exchange educational programmes in local
and international cultures.
·
Practical
Educational Academy, where students should have lessons:
o
By watching documentary films and movies.
o
From demonstrations from instructors.
o
In participating in discussions
o
In dramatic presentations.
o
By attending excursions at locations and
sites.
o
By using pictures to study and look at.
o
By hearing talks and words.
o
By reading.
·
Spiritual
Education, where they learns lessons in
o
Spirituality and understand that life is
not complete without the spiritual aspect. It has been observed that the
greatest people, such as philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, great
religious leaders and many others have in one way or other been very spiritual
in their own beliefs.
o
Spirituality is food for the spirit and
all humans beings are supposed to have spirits to make us complete and
existent. I have learnt that in order to be that
“special”, say ( great parent, mathematician, scientist, software programmer,
spiritual leader, lawyer, Accountant, Engineer) person one needs to invoke
one’s spirits to help one get there and live a fulfilling life on earth and
afterwards.
·
Financial
Education, where they would have lessons in:
o
Pure financial literacy, since one
cannot live in this world without using money, one needs to have lessons on all
money matters as it is not currently taught at schools though everyone uses
money, many know nothing about money that would cover assets and liabilities,
income and expense, etc.
o
Types of investments and lessons that
inculcate the habits of saving towards investments.
o
Entrepreneurship, where students would
engage in entrepreneurial discussions and lessons should help them invoke their
creativity, innovativeness and originality to give to the world what it needs.
They should also learn the differences between the entrepreneur and the
employee to help them make their life-long choices.
o
Community
service and volunteerism and encourage or enticed to do community work.
“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the
ditch."
·
Leadership
Education where lessons in:
o
Leadership skills in family setups,
corporate setups, religious setups, academic setups, non-formal setups. These
are not the same and each one has its peculiar leadership demands and supplies.
o
Communication skills
o
Negotiation skills
o
Time management
o
Self-management
·
Health
Literacy, where students should have lessons in:
o
First aid and first aid administration
and application of skills learned.
o
Healthy eating habits.
o
Unwholesome food and their effect on the
human body.
o
The causes of common diseases.
o
All known communicable and transmittable
diseases.
o
The use of hard drugs, including alcohol
and smoking.
o
Cardiovascular (heart related) diseases.
o
Healthy and safety skills.
o
Home management skills.
“I
have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
·
Environmental
studies, where they should have lessons in:
o
Sustainability development.
o
Environmental cleanliness
o
Environmental degradation
o
Depletions of natural resources caused
by human activity.
o
Climatic changes what to do help create
climatic conditions favorable for man to live peacefully on earth.
·
Sporting
Activities, where students should have lessons in:
o
Sporting disciplines engage in practical
sporting activities and have theoretical lessons on those disciplines.
o
Fair play of all sporting practices.
·
Mathematical
(numerical) Education where students should have lessons in:
o
Basic mathematical calculations
o
Business mathematics.
o
Engineering mathematics.
o
Finance mathematics
o
Medical mathematics
The
world is all about mathematics and we cannot but have to help the children
appreciate the importance of mathematics. The world is full of man-made beauty
because of mathematics. Just check around you now, everything by you was
created using some measurement and calculations. That is mathematics. It is the
wonder subject that rules the world.
·
Relationship
and Family Life Education, where students should have lessons
in:
o
Differences between male and female.
o
Behavioral patterns of males and
females.
o
Body language communication and
mannerisms and their meanings.
o
Sign language for all family members. (All
people, who cannot talk and use sign language live with us)
o
Issues such as equity, equality, gender
sensitivity.
o
Self-management and time management (not
managing these impact on the lives of people around you)
"Children are like
wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression”
·
Emotional
Intelligence, where students should have lessons on:
o
Temperament types of different people.
o
Understanding oneself and also
understand others.
·
Do
It Yourself (DIY) where students will:
o
Learn to cook to help cook the food you
like for yourself and for your parents ( it’s safe and healthier)
o
Learn to babysitting to help admire and
appreciate little kids
o
Learn to iron to save money from using
the laundry
o
Learn to weed to save money from hiring
someone to do it for you.
o
Learn to wash to save power costs and
laundry services
o
All these keep one active as they are
all forms of some exercises.
“The object of education is to
prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives”
©2013, Godwin-Xavier Ayeebo
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