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- Our aim – give children childhood back!
- Playgic Hostels – a solution to modern day parenting
- What are the skills needed in 21st centuary?
- The process of learning revisited
- Free mind autonomy ephinany!
- Old ways of Parenting
- Jaliawala bagh – british could not rule India without subservience from employees
- Is your child learning how to improvise?
- More points on structure
- Childhood deprivation living in cities/urban areas
- Checklist – if a child is not happy and active he is not learning but only labouring
- Reverse psychology and scarcity!
- One field that has Zero Competition
- Are you teaching children self sustainability? (jack of trades)
- Consumerist psychology of a parent
- Career – success comes if you start at 4-5 year old
- Taking interest without it being relatable?
- Money aspect to modern education systems
- It really depends ..
- money how it complicates things
- Brain’s spacing needs to ideate understand process sort
- Answering “children can’t learn everything on their own”
- How much free time is enough
- Conversation with a parent who’s not ready for pure unschooling
- Types of parents in ref to unschooling (stages)
- Unschooling should ideally be more about parents lifestyle than just children
- Child looking out of the window, when in classroom
- Schools want you to be poor
- Advice to young people by Andrei Tarkovsky
- you need classroom when you cannot create a holistic environment
- Do we still need schools for literacy?
- Summing up things i have learnt about childhood WRT 21st centuary
- Uninterrupted time to learn
- The biggest deprivation that gets least attention for children in modern times – Nuclear families
- Selected Suggested Readings for any modern day parent
- Different economic oriented goals for unschooling/homeschooling parents
- How to spend more time with children in modern times
- We learn most as Helper with Expert Than in a classroom
- What will a child do in life?
- Hiding information when you teach
- Key takeaways from Google working spaces
- Learning process …
- Playgic carnival “is cool”- a learning place which pays back
- Creating “magic” – what children need to be talented
- The “is cool carnival” learning center model (opposite of school)
- Real world resources
- Observation – learning (bhul gaya)
- Effortless parenting – a story
- How time tables and too much structure disturbs learning trance
- Why i don’t follow a certain education philosophy
- overhearing – without even thinking about learning
- child out of comfort zone
- School makes either slaves or rebels
- When you let it go – learning happens automatically
- Learning about life vs jargons
- What a child needs?
- Case study – peeking learning
- But children want to go to schools..
- Case study – haldar nag
- Story structure for
- Yes external motivation/intervention can help us grow but you don’t need schools for that
- How will a child get minimum essential knowledge without school?
- Concept of anything in simple non-jargon language
- So much discussion about how much children have learnt, not much how how they are happy?
- Board games as learning tools
- Have you calculated school’s ROI?
- Why the modern industrial world and system needs schools?
- Playgic groups – the biggest school
- Do i want to close all schools and have no specific place of learning?
- Learning and working on projects what we think, how it is (how structur)
- The problem with bigger groups
- The best of schools cannot match real life
- Problems with homeschooling / unschooling in modern times
- What’s wrong with tests and exams (lottery system)
- Satiating parents need of certainty/insecurity (but)
- khaby unschooling memes
- How it works in the nature – framework vs structure
- What does a child does in “free” time?
- Early years are more about building context
- Different Skills – concetpual understanding and language
- Academic excellence why we must focus more on literature esp in early years
- Relation between Concept Context observation
- Work vs doing something
- Problem with Definitions (millet example)
- Why germans are great software engineers
- How world works? patterns, classes and objects and how one thing teachers another
- Why small parenting groups is best model for community learning
- Straight vs creative / learning tasks
- Brain is like butterfly – you can’t really catch
- Standardized subject system is spoiling generations
- Textbooks , Sequence and data is great POST learning and not LEARNING process
- Anything related to subconscious brain takes time
- Knowing a tiny bit
- Self directed learning vs instructional learning – brain chart
- Question – reward system – motivation and schools
- Quickest way to learn a language – bombard yourself with it
- Why some children are good in academics some not and how they can improve
- Pressure and trauma justified?
- We hate bosses and masters, we love friends .. what are you to your children?
- Are we born to enjoy life? Or suffer pain
- We forget what we know, and keep doing what’s straight forward
- Life is about living not preparing for it
- Questioning the career choices
- Good vs better vs best!
- The thin line between exposure, influence with autonomy vs control and
- Underprivileged children vs affluent children – pros and cons
- Questions to ask a modern day parent
- What should you do as a parent? build resources and provide exposure
- Core – Autonomy
- Ideal 21st centuary childhood
- With autonomy comes originality
- Fear of losing a relationship is healthier than fear of punishment
- When you are keenly observing something you feel like you are part of it
- You are educated…
- A poem that sums up my thought about LIFE in context of schooling/industrialization
- Case study – Arjun Mehra – running
- How school turns humans into scarcity minded zombies
- Learning through peeking into the classroom vs being in the classroom
- Why instructional learning does not work as good as self directed learning
- Case study – iron man mask from scrap
- An ideal school should be everyday carnival
- A billion things
- Govt can control certification, why does it need to control the process of preparation?
- Lets discuss textbooks
- What kind of parents unschool children and how to convince those who don’t?
- Unschooling purity test
- Some stories of people choose their career
- When is instructional based learning relevant
- Observation is the best teacher
- Alternative to community living- Workshop and project learning model
- Why many unschooling models struggle or even fail?
- I can’t convince you about unschooling unless you give it time
- The power of Imagination
- You can’t control WHAT your child should be, you have to find WHO he is
- Is your child God of one thing?
- How parenting would change if future and survival is certain?
- Against their nature?
- Half hour periods – movie metaphor
- Want to hire me to teach ?
- Doctor with artistic tendencies and calm solider
- Why do parents need to learn about parenting? (Hint: Unlearn)
- Injustice root cause theory in schools
- Metaphors explaining dangers of academic training before brain is not ready?
- Questions to parents – is it really that critical?
- how schooling encourages materialism
- Logic behind “number of words” for writing answers in exams
- Four factors of career and life planning for the children
- Why we are afraid of unschooling?
- Myth – unschooling means no certifications
- Is starting early mandatory for successful academic career?
- The power of creating something
- Is your child have enough freedom for Hyper focusing?
- Why Online Learning will always remain second best to casual face to face learning
- The right mindset before you unschool your child
- Why can’t your child do what other children can?
- Best career for your child? Keep trying until you find one that fits
- Who is your child?
- Concept vs Data
- Benefits of Playgic Self Managed learning centers (Schooling alternatives)
- Science vs technology – schooling perspective
- Why parents pressurize their children in modern world
- Life design – the context of everything
- why is depression rates rising amongst young adults?
- Inculcating these habits in children?
- Why children create a ruckus? or addicted to games TV?
- Is your child developing thinking skill?
- How governments can save big budgets
- Reading a theory in textbook vs creating your own theory
- To become a good doctor, learn music, play in the ground
- the subconscious brain window
- observation without stakes
- How playing a piano freely feciliates learning analogy
- Puzzle Metaphor – children learning
- Specialization – a modern day construct
- Why re-create the outside world in schools? Why not just make WORLD the learning place?
- What’s wrong with online learning?
- How to learn? There is not a single answer
- How lack of “resources” becomes a boon than a bane
- The cycle support analogy
- Process of self directed learning
- How to prepare for learning
- If we handhold them and spoonfed them about the process, then we will basically make the process devoid of the elements
- Learning related to subsconscious brain needs a different treatment
- The whole learning philosophy summed up in one example
- No i am not suggesting zero involvement
- Why self paced learning is important – And how play is BEST method of learning
- who will learn more?
- How are schools implementing their fancy “words”?
- School trains mind to be a replicator not an inventor
- Some awesome cartoons explaining what schools do
- Future of government role in schooling should be limited to literacy and certifications
- The opportunity cost
- Few anamolies of schooling system
- What schools should look like in future
- Friends are best teachers – power of intra learning
- The power of unconditional love
- Farming example – minimal intervention and time taken
- Mentors and guides
- The best teacher – free willed observation
- What animal are you should be your profession
- Schools – “Don’t trust yourself and follow the system instead”
- How would you feel if you are watched , judged all the time?
- List of scientific studies
- Fallacies to justify school system
- Brain does not work sequentially like a factory or machine
- How to excel in academics and why are some children good and some not good in maths etc
- Quit school then what ? The future of childhood is parenting groups
- Unschooling certification
- Why are schools not relevant anymore
- Language learning
- Can you really measure human intelligence in numbers?
- Rewards / punishments as tools to manage children
- Boredom is beautiful
- Structure, descipline is counter productive to conceptual learning related to subsconscious mind
- Why electives should start just after primary
- Ramanujam was a “failure” in conventional school system
- Today i learnt/ Reddit plans
- brain funnel slow information and references/relationships
- Basic literacy and then financial sustainance
- A child who grows with criticism, becomes underconfident adult
- What an ideal childhood should be like?
- Good things about schools
- Why governments really need to rethink education system
- Against Freedom of choice
- Future of unschooling
- Why we need to cease exam system now!
- Why learn everything, perfectly?
- Video game analogy of learning
- Don’t worry, your unschooled child can go into almost any profession – there won’t be any closed doors
- Experiment – holding hands – pulling forcing
- Hours and energy wasted in school
- Academics and degree in 21st centuary
- Why are Backbenchers are usually most successful , confident and happier in life
- The world does not need more successful people
- Young Sheldon webseries – a great example of how schools thwart passion
- Good and bad of language learning Apps
- Schooling and structured good at stage of point of diminishing returns
- A child becomes good in one thing and not in other
- Academics if not done right, are bad for both mental and physical health
- Learning process and patterns in learning
- Learning does nt happen in a sequential manner
- Flexibility and freedom – two learning tools for the brain!
- Children love watching sports, films, why do they hate math/science academics?
- Principles of language learning- how it applies to other learning areas as well
- Brain gets tired if “uninteresting” things are done for long
- Its a terrible idea to compete if you are not ready
- Ideas Work on environment – or send your child to school
- How child develops certain interest and aptitude
- assessments
- Prepare before you run
- What provisions does nt govt has for self-life learners?
- The context of everything – history of humans
- Reading stories for joy vs for exams/school
- What is your child’s inner animal?
- What a typical unschooled child’s life is like
- Case study – How we can be individual yet part of a group
- A little experiment to understand how brain works –
- Why schooling and hard work is useless in 21st centuary
- What does schooling really means?
- You cannot control learning if you do, it will be counter productive
- Experiment / survey knowing vs doing difference
- What is worth talking about
- Stages of learning –
- The rough page and copy
- Brain how it learns a graphic explainer
- Spaced repetition – learning principle
- Why you should unschool your children?
- Why homeschooling word is a misnomer
- survey / experiment – trained teachers for primary classes
- Any instructional education above literacy level is unnecessary
- Actions do not
- Less is more in parenting
- Be your child’s friend not an employer/master
- Easy vs difficult
- We have to choose challenges
- Live smart vs hard?
- What is wrong with hard work
- some facts which can make you think
- Almost every child has potential to be a prodigy if gets opportunity
- Swimming metaphor
- Punishment 101
- School – subservient and follow orders
- The biggest lie “you can ask if you have any doubt ask again”
- Teachers and school
- There’s a world beyond academics
- Schools make children too nice
- Academics and textbooks shold come AFTER casual exposure and observation
- Should you eat when not hungry? Then why learn something if the brain is not receptive?
- Survey / experiment – learning from teacher vs friend or senior
- Cleaning / casual job at an office – best learning place in the world
- Life design – one thing or many things?
- Language acquisition
- Parents- how to get past the fear of taking your children out of school
- What not to do, is as important as what we should do
- Why is play highest form of learning
- Can you fly an aeroplane – meme
- Classroom learning model
- Fallacious arguements to support schooling system
- Schools are limited to literacy skills
- School opportunity cost?
- Here are some Failures
- Importance of video games and easy things
- How learning about one thing teaches every subject
- What would your child miss, if you don’t send your child to school?
- Facts about school most of us agree with
- Cycle side tyres metaphor
- How to start unschooling your child
- Unschooling case study – Bhavya trust Bangalore
- Crop rotation for land – activity rotation for children!
- One thing at a time, vs one thing all the time
- The recipe for intelligence
- How is one child more confident than the other?
- How autonomy builds confidence
- “Casual chats” teaches more than classroom
- Case study – learning
- Let’s question school system
- Fallacy – unschool along with school
- Schools are almost irrelevant in the internet era
- Education vs Literacy
- The redundent school system hampers growth of individual and society
- If there is no joy, there is no learning
- Schools how much they have changed?
- How school builts a negative brain Muscle memory
- Importance of feeling of accomplishment to sustain interest in learning
- Guide method of teaching Vs handholding/spoonfeeding
- Memory vs using information
- When should you start academics?
- Self learning is best learning
- How learning one topic is enough
- Plant analogy of growth
- Feeling vs thinking
- Spoiling a beautiful relationship
- Why i don’t teach for money
- Why unschooling is like oxygen for ADHD kids
- Natural is easier, effortless, better and sustainable
- Mind is like a muscle treat it like one
- Parents know schools are not good, but still send their children to school
- Preparing for life vs living life
- Lifeculum
- For Governments/ Policy makers
- Leave data for computers, stories for humans
- Pushing your child to do things when not ready
- Certainty slavery parents
- Schools don’t help even academically
- Pictures and brain digestion
- What should be the goal as parent?
- Things to learn from tribal parents
- The Millenial trauma
- Dear parents , you know school has flaws but you still send your children to school
- Why academics should start later in life
- brain and learning basics-
- Life vs school
- A word on memorization
- Why is classroom tiring and exhausts the brain
- An opportunity cost! School vs Life
- Children are not as naive as you would like to think!
- What “play” really means?
- Why parents need to be trained to be a parent in today’s world?
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