We've read and discussed a lot concerning education. From the beginnings of education, to alternative forms of education, to education around the world.

Now it's time for us to discuss the The purposes for which we want our education and how such a system would look - around Sunday Brunch. 2pm, 131 Third Ave Apt. 305 Above Duane Reade @ 14th St. Bring something if you want. So far we have scrambled tofu, potatoes, pancakes and wine.

Minutes from Flight School: Alternative Education Systems:

EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA:

They have this thing called

Enterprise Education.

What they do is try and have kids actually teach all the content areas in terms of business, starting your own business, understanding businesses, and working in businesses. Kids have a virtual business where they work in different departments like, Marketing, Human Resources etc. They then get sent electricity bills and everything to simulate a real business.  read more »

• I don't like that. Education should be about exploring and learning. It's like this corporate model that NYU uses where students are the new products. How to make a dollar isn't what education is supposed to be about

Minutes from Flight School: Alternative Education Systems:

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• Homeschooling is most often used by very right winged, religious based groups or parents
• Some parents choose to do basically replicate schools at home,
  

  but other parents unschool. That's when parents teach their children through the child's interests. They learn to read, write, etc. at their own pace and are taught different things through their own inquiry

Minutes from Flight School: Alternative Education Systems

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• How much control should communities have over children's education
• What impediments are there to alternative forms of education?
• What role can the government play in liberation education?

• "Do parents have the expertise necessary to really develop curriculum, or should specialists design curriculum?"

• Parents should maybe just approve or deny curriculum after the specialists have designed in.

• "In Canada university students walk out all the time. Even if their needs aren't met they are at least addressed"

• Need wide support to have walkouts.

Minutes from Flight School: Education's Foundations

• What is Education?
• Why is it important?
• Why do we have to pay so much for it at universities?
• How can we change the way public education is administered in New York city?
• How do we take ownership and translate it into change?

ENGAGE!  read more »

Imagine a study group where you don't study for tests, you don't study for grades, you don't even study just to gain knowledge... Imagine a group where you study for action, you study for change, you study to learn how to undo and redo our society. Imagine such a group in various parts of the city geared towards knowledge that acts. Let us begin. Like with everything that has ever produced upliftment in our world, it had a beginning. Join us. Let us begin.

1. The goals of the study group
2. The structure of the group (will two people read and present, and then rotate, will we have documentaries, will we invite professors, will we all read etc?)
3. Meeting Times and Dates (once a month, twice a month?)