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« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 03:30:58 PM » |
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My husband and I have talked today about how the clinics offering water births are rising in popularity and in number here in Romania.
And hubby said: "If there's demand and the demand is so big, there will be a bigger and wider offer too."
I was just thinking about how school is going to be for our son in few years time, depending on the circumstances. I can homeschool him, but let's say some circumstances make us enroll him to school. What will that mean to him? Will the system let him advance in his own pace or consider him either hyperactive or genius or whatever or a freak?
Maybe it's the same with everything, including education systems: if more and more parents want and offer something different for their children, the society will have to change bit by bit the education systems too. In fact, as Dr. Montessori stated, the education enviroment was adapted to the Industrial Revolution. Now we are in the Information(al) Revolution, but the schools or systems, most of them, are still in the Industrial Revolution.
What's the next Revolution going to be like? And how will the system react? (Alvin Toffler, a futurist, predicted many changes happening today as we speak. And in his books we find a lot of information sustaining some of Dr. Montessori's affirmations.)
PS:
For now, I don't know about the society, but beginning with my husband and I, in a way we've started a whole new generation of parents in our family. None of our present or past family member has ever done what we've been doing, either regarding our belief systems, the health of our bodies, the pregnancy period and raising children, the way we educate ourselves etc.
It's just that we have much to choose from and we're more aware of what we're doing and what's happening to us, in our lives, with our children etc. And the communication and understanding between our family members is so different than what our parents or grandparents had as partners.
We're changing something in our DNA, I believe. And if we do that, and your family does that to yours, and more families do that, than I guess some things will be changed profoundly for generations ahead. (Look for the monkey experiment, if I recall, where they've discovered that when a critical number of monkeys did one thing, another group in some other part of the world did the same thing too...)
I mean, my son is free to choose his religion, his hobbies and whatever is possible in his life. We couldn't have done that in our time. But what we can do now didn't just came out of nothing. There were causes leading to that. The same will happen to our future, whatever that may be.
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