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Our schools and the stone age

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to make somebody believe you  when you say that school prepare students for future, you would have a look at these facts: - cars in 2017 very modern, but 150 years ago it was a wagon hitched to horse. - phones, mobiles are different with phones 150 years ago. - but what will you say if I tell you that classrooms these days are similar to classrooms 150 years ago; setting in straight lines, raise your hand when you want to speak and etc... I would die when I remember teachers standing in front of 45 students teach them in the same way. 45 students who have different gifts, different dreams and different interests. Fish will believe that it is foolish if we judge it by asking it to climb the tree.
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Circle time

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Think out of box

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Usually teacher stick in curriculum and ask students also to stick in it. Nowadays another processes and skills are required. Thinking out of the box is a process that enable students to think creativity and imaginatively. This process  comprehends the implementation of an unusual approach to the logical thinking structure. For example:  nine dots puzzle. Students need to think in unusual way. .     .     . .     .     . .     .     . you need to match them by using four lines only. Here they need to think out of the box  it must be that help students to think in unusual and to imagine as much they can.
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