Towards the Path to Success
I look at my daughter and I see an entrepreneur. Okay, it is all in my head, but I want it with all my heart. Because entrepreneurs are the ones who find their passion, do something about their passion, rake in all the money and success and (have the potential to) make the world a better place.
I want that for my daughter. So I transferred her to another school.
It was a summer and I was learning about and loving finance, and the idea of a different school for my 9-year old daughter kept growing (gnawing) in my head – an entrepreneurial school that would give her a love of finance and help her find and inflame her passion. The next day, I started interviewing other schools. She was, at that time, enrolled in a traditional school – rigorous daily classes, heavy assignments, a bag with wheels that would make her shoulder stoop, teachers that taught but did not really teach. She had the burden to understand concepts that were taught to her in 30 minutes or less, and the burden to ask mother for help, yes, me, while I also tried to remember and understand concepts that I already buried in the annals of my memory. We were a mess. Well, me mostly.
I thought that a school was “the foundation”. And what was she learning – all the correct answers. While I have nothing against correct answers, I suspect that it could kill, or maim, creativity. And I had a growing suspicion that she was being bred to be an employee (like I was). When the entrepreneurs were the ones who rule the world.
The next question was – which school. Initially, I wanted a school that went beyond reading, writing and math, an entrepreneurial school like I said, but I was not sure what that was. One school I interviewed had market day where students were required to sell food stuff (to gain selling skills), another school had the students run the cafeteria (an exercise in running a business) – all interesting – but the first one was unreasonably expensive and the next was, well, an MBA school.
And then I stumbled upon the Waldorf-Steiner education.
The Manila Waldorf School does not profess to be an entrepreneurial school but a school that harnesses original thought in their students. It was a different school. Music – violin, guitar, the lyre, the recorder – was part of their curriculum. And so is appreciation of nature (through nature walks and daily hymns), architecture, geometry, arts, eurythmy, foreign languages. Watching television is discouraged, play is encouraged (even under the rain). There is evident camaraderie between the students and the teachers, and the lessons are not lessons but experiences, evoking enthusiasm and interest and passion to understand and learn more, which, I think, is the recipe for success.
Could I have found it?
We enrolled and she has never been happier.
They are having an open house this Saturday. You are invited.
Article by Issa. Poster from Waldorf. Copyright 2010.
Website: www.YouWantToBeRich.com
Email: issa@youwanttoberich.com
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Very inspiring story. It is really good that there are finance blogs on the internet to help people who needs financial advice.
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Yes it is important that we need to choose the right school for our kids because it will give them proper training that they can use and will help them become a better person.