Sunday, June 8, 2025

Life is project-based learning

I used to read for hours. I would read all afternoon, stuck in a story that was so fascinating I could not put it doen. I needed to know the end. I remember reading the Bible form beginning to end when I was eight years old. I was so engorssed in all of the stories. From the flood to Joseph to Moses  through the Kings into the New Testament and all of the letters and finally the mind-bending prophecies of the Revelation. I remember reading the Black Beauty series and then Tom Clancy, then Centennial, Hawaii, Texas,...

I enjoy a good story. Now I read mostly business books. I like when an insight or statistic sparks the mind. It feels like lightning in the brain. I would like to share that joy with other people. I would like them to gain knowledge and insight. I would like them to light up when they read something interesting. I believe I have overcomplicated it. With the pressure to get results I have succumb to the pressure to push. The magic is lighting a spark. I have gone through all kinds of training, the latest formulas to stand here and say this. I don't know if giving people a positive learning experience isn't more powerful in the long term.
Let's say we did teach them how to answer questions right. We taught them the tricks of filling in missing knowledge, going through the logic process to eliminate answers or come to the right conclusion. Then, at the end of one year after the other of tests, there is no test. Now for the rest of your life you don't have test questions, you had projects to do. You have to choose what projects you want to do out of all the possibilities. You have to think through the tasks. You have to get other people to help you. There isn't one right answer so now you have to evaluate it yourself. Insn;t that a weird way to set people up for life. 

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