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Alternative schooling

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This thread was inspired by   and this quote:

'School can ruin or taint so many aspects of life'  in this thread:

 HI EVERYONE I am new here 

This set me thinking about what type of education would actually suit autistic people best.

One thing I'd like to avoid is forced education - making people study subjects they dislike or are not good at and especially the exams - from what I see, there is much more pressure on achievement for children nowadays than when I was at school which must be very stressful.

Also, I wonder what would help to alleviate the bullying that certainly was endemic when I was at school - smaller classes maybe.

From my own experience the bullying and trauma of school can have a lifelong detrimental effect. 

Montessori schooling impresses me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education

What do you think?

Any radical changes you would like to see in education - whether private or state?

I am talking about the UK because that's all I have experience of but please talk about your own country too.

PLEASE DON'T ADD PHOTOS TO THIS THREAD IN THE SAME POST AS TEXT OR THAT MAY BREAK IT. THANKYOU.

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  • Thanks all - I am finding your replies very interesting along with your different experiences.

    Expecto_Patronum said:
    There should be far more emphasis on applying knowledge, rather than memorising it. 

    Indeed.

    My husband went to a Technical High School.

    These were phased out but he learnt on 6 weeks rotation: brickwork + plastering, painting + decorating, metalwork including using lathes and blacksmith tools.  They made wood boxes using dove tail joints.  Academic subjects were also taught.

    I would have loved this but in any case girls were expected to become mothers so were taught cooking and needlework.

    I think that besides these practical skills, things like managing money would have been good, but maybe that's taught these days.

    Maths beyond arithmetic + simple division etc seemed a waste of time.

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  • Thanks all - I am finding your replies very interesting along with your different experiences.

    Expecto_Patronum said:
    There should be far more emphasis on applying knowledge, rather than memorising it. 

    Indeed.

    My husband went to a Technical High School.

    These were phased out but he learnt on 6 weeks rotation: brickwork + plastering, painting + decorating, metalwork including using lathes and blacksmith tools.  They made wood boxes using dove tail joints.  Academic subjects were also taught.

    I would have loved this but in any case girls were expected to become mothers so were taught cooking and needlework.

    I think that besides these practical skills, things like managing money would have been good, but maybe that's taught these days.

    Maths beyond arithmetic + simple division etc seemed a waste of time.

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