School means Creative Leisure

Somebody told me the word School means in greek and latin ‘creative leisure’… This was the last drop I guess for me; how could we end up from creative leisure to what we send our children to now? The last real music lessons are currently being kicked out in Dutch primary school system… So School actually can’t be called school anymore.. It is a lie to be sued upon. I hear stories from parents their children are so bored they get all nervous sitting the whole day in there. I can imagine spasm is a frequent sight in classrooms.

It is such a mess. And the state is not able to solve it for various reasons. There are very bright individuals in the Ministry of Education though the system surrounding their desk is so vast and segmented, the blood doesn’t flow well. To proof before hand a new method will work is impossible to do. At the same time we see children learning extremelly fast basic skills on the iPad. Also new methods, not tested before. Natural selection takes place in the App Store; good experiments are scaled up, the weak fall off. We can learn from this a lot.

On the bright side!

Maxima Zorreguieta has developed a plan in the light of the right for every child to make music. So maybe we just have to wait until her husband becomes our king, parlement runs out of money so we want the royal house to have more power, than Maxima can create some lasting change in education the way it should be.

Or can’t we wait?