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Focused Educational Paths
Posted 12/15/2009 by sarossell in Lesson Plans | Submit idea in this category
I am convinced that children from the age of 12 can easily determine their life purpose based on their current (automatic) interests and actions. Once this life purpose is determined, their educational path should be dynamically designed to fulfill their full potential within that purpose. For example, I know that my life purpose is to be an explorative archivist. I love to explore and learn and then catalog my experiences. This begs for a specific career path and education that should be determined and exploited to the fullest as early as possible.
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Posted by Mimitz
12/17/2009
I agree. With focused attention to individual talents at an early age the days of wondering what you want to be when you grow up won't just be a wonder...it'd be an opportunity to make a real goal to work toward.
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Posted by Millenial
12/22/2009
I also think there should be a separate institution for children with multiple talents. It was difficult for me to choose writing for the longest time because I just loved learning about things in general. If children could somehow see the results of a career choice they could know whether or not they really want it. Hindsight is a beast.

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sarossell (12/23/2009): I have no doubt that there is a career path for everyone that includes ALL of their interests and talents. For example, I enjoy writing, photography, research on various subjects, interviewing, travel, cataloging and archiving. Once I found that all of these things could be achieved by being a Technical Writer, I was thrilled.
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Posted by rchatterton
05/13/2010
I think we'll both agree that children ought to be freed to explore their interests from a very early age and also be given the guidance and resources to build upon those interests to what they see as success. I think too often children are stifled in school by the sheer volume of choices in front of them. Which club do I join, which sport? In my opinion we ought to help our students explore then we ought to help them reinforce. Interesting idea for sure.

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sarossell (05/18/2010): Agreed. Sadly, there is not yet a functional method (applied within the U.S. educational system anyway) to determine the base interests and inherent talents of our youth. Instead, we pepper them with random option and hops something "sticks". And in the past decade, even the random option have diminished due
to budget cuts.
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