I believe this is one of the most important topics Humans can discuss. Knowledge is everything and attaining it should be a lot of fun and really really easy.
It has been my line of thought that college should be all about producing ideas and not studying dogmas.
So it will be my task to learn the best way of teaching to learn, to avoid further "pedagogic trauma" (including my own) to future generations. Although I am no pedagogue, I want to learn about the subject. I would very much appreciate the references you can point out for me for further reading.
I am really searching for a "barbaric" reference that I heard of, about a Harvard Psychologist that said that 50% of neuron apoptosis was "normal" in the Human newborn. A quick read through Alberts MBOC 2004 shows that apoptosis cannot be defined as normal, while it depends on the organism surroundings. Cells die from lack of stimuli.
That being said, this is how I pictured a "Scholar Utopia"
at 3-4 months old, child and parents take a savant year and live in a neonate institution. Learning is accomplished as follows:
4 moths old: Intensive Shapes and Numbers games with a neverlasting classical music and languages background music tapes. Tonal language is introduced. Tonal language is a Tone and Note language yet to be developed (?) used in a "rewards fashion".
4months- 1year old. Interaction with Mothertongue from parents, Chinease, English and Spanish from activity managers. By the end of this period, the child should show response to at least 4 languages.
1-6 years old: Group education. A fun way of learning now introduces abstraction and hard sciences ONLY in the form of languages. Methodologies should be developed for maintaining a childs attention and their needs. The following is a first prospect:
Greek Profesor. Should speak only "formal" language, in a special coordinate axis room. e.g. Students should interpret movement as the sound of the words dx/dt and time as dt and specific time as the integral from 0 to the specific time of dt, and so on. It is not really abstract, it should be just another language. The only excercise is the need to communicate with others.
German Professor. This is the language of Science tales and fun experiments.
French Professor The language of caos, of phylosophy.
Chinese Professor. The history Professor, the language of amazing storytelling, about our planet earth inhabitants.
Tonal Professor One of the most important professors that has the really difficult task of making the students use an instrument for communication instead of the other languages.
In every class that are fit to the pupil´s need for attention, painting, exercising and writing are encouraged.
6-15 years old. Updates.
15 years old - up. Ideas factory. Just speak your mind in any language. Some will have restrictions, others will not. Just be a part of Humanity.
well I am sure that many people have written about all of this. I just hope they are not the same people that have tried to find a new energy source for the last 60 years.
thanks,
CPV
