I found this floating in the Facebook world and this sparked off a thought! - Could we make education really personal. I guess there are multiple dimensions of this, and it would be worth exploring these in a series.
Albert Einstein possibly put this statement out of his own experience! Especially his early childhood when he was considered a good for nothing kid! But today we consider him as one of the many geniuses who walked on the planet.
As humans, we all possess an inherent urge to "learn something". This "something" could range from the standard courses taught in college to just what we find around - could be art or just a simple skill too.
Most likely, we donot know the source of this inspiration that comes to us - exciting us about the "thing" we intend to learn... The question then is - "If we inherently know what excites us to learn a specific thing, why shouldn't we think of personalizing the learning process?"
Recognizing that individuals are all different, like different things, learn different things at different paces should be the bedrock on which we should develop our learning systems. Education though broad-based, should be flexible to give the necessary space for students.
An interesting perspective it to allow the diversity itself to be a guiding factor in the process of educating oneself. Constraining and creating a rigid mindset could be detrimental to the education's cause of broadening one's horizon.
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But how to personalize?
I guess we would need to make available an exploratory school environment where the student experiences what he/she enjoys the most. The curriculum could be structured to graduate the students to the next level. There is no one passing or failing just specializing in what they find interesting.
The common factor that one would need to mandatorily put across all the groups could be the ethics, moral etc. Though could be seen as boring, these are essential controls that could prevent mis-use in the long run.
Found a video that is close to what I was thinking off
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