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Originally Posted by Nneka  If I got a billion dollars from Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, or anyone else, I would open a school for K-12 that does spiritual enrichment, explores different cultures and religions, financial literacy, and teaches the usual reading, writing, and arithmetic. There would be a lot of experiential learning with annual trips to different countries for all ages.
My vision for the school is that it be 20-50% scholarship students. The parents would have to volunteer a minimum of 2 hours a week. If your child is on scholarship, you would have to volunteer more hours.
I would also start a parallel center where the parents can do life enhancement courses in health, financial literacy, spirituality, and relationships.
I want to do the project like Disney World (or Land, the one in Orlando) on acres and acres of land with a buffer to the city. When students and parents arrive on campus, I want them to feel like they have entered another world.
I want to create this school with leaders in all fields academic and otherwise. For example, I want to higher architects that can create a space that blends the inside with the outside and has nooks for meditation along with open play areas entangled with classroom areas.
This is my life dream. Even if I don't get a billion dollars from Bill or Warren, I will create it. |
That sounds like a wonderful aspiration. So basically you want to create a new type of system for schooling?
I can tell you that it's way too hard on kids right now. The school I attend now is very fear-motivated and it's a little hard to deal with on a daily basis. Rather then teach application and motivation, they teach "GET A GRADE." It's great! I love to do work, but please be patient with me and do your best to help me.
It's all a lesson, but the conformity thats engrained in schools at the moment seems to be counter intuitive towards what we should be learning in order to succeed as individuals.