Comments on: School of Everything http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/ New ideas in Education and Technology Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:03:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Andy Gibson http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/#comment-540 Andy Gibson Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:30:57 +0000 http://diligence.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-540 Hi Mark, thanks very much for the link and the feedback. Just wanted to pick up on the point about not needing a teacher for everything. I agree, and/but we also want to help people find "learning buddies" - not a teacher or someone you pay, but someone who's on a parallel track to you, with whom you can swap ideas and resources. This is the role that lots of clubs and societies play for people, and I'd like to see that recognised alongside more formal teacher-student relationships as a way people support their own education. We haven't quite got the language right though. "Find people to learn with and from" is how we sometimes describe it, but it's a bit dry. Anyway, back to it, and thanks again for thinking of us. Hi Mark, thanks very much for the link and the feedback.

Just wanted to pick up on the point about not needing a teacher for everything. I agree, and/but we also want to help people find “learning buddies” – not a teacher or someone you pay, but someone who’s on a parallel track to you, with whom you can swap ideas and resources.

This is the role that lots of clubs and societies play for people, and I’d like to see that recognised alongside more formal teacher-student relationships as a way people support their own education. We haven’t quite got the language right though. “Find people to learn with and from” is how we sometimes describe it, but it’s a bit dry.

Anyway, back to it, and thanks again for thinking of us.

]]> By: mrdilworth http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/#comment-536 mrdilworth Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:38:10 +0000 http://diligence.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-536 You raise an interesting point. I think the need for a teacher depends on the learning style of the individual. Certainly, there are those who can learn independently. Perhaps the due to the nature of Esperanto, it attracts those who have a tendency towards self-directed learning. Despite the fact that Esperanto is not widely taught within many school systems, and it is rarely a mother tongue, there are still several hundred thousand to a million speakers worldwide according to Wikipedia. Dankon por l' ideo! You raise an interesting point. I think the need for a teacher depends on the learning style of the individual. Certainly, there are those who can learn independently. Perhaps the due to the nature of Esperanto, it attracts those who have a tendency towards self-directed learning. Despite the fact that Esperanto is not widely taught within many school systems, and it is rarely a mother tongue, there are still several hundred thousand to a million speakers worldwide according to Wikipedia. Dankon por l’ ideo!

]]> By: mankso http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/#comment-535 mankso Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:19:56 +0000 http://diligence.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-535 What makes you think you need to have a teacher for everything you learn?! Many of the fluent Esperanto-speakers I know taught themselves from a book without ever attending a class. True, it might have been done more efficiently and quickly with a teacher, but nevertheless the effort required to teach yourself Esperanto is minimal, compared to any ethnic language. After you have grasped the basic grammar, buy yourself an interesting novel and a dictionary, and listen to the daily Esperanto programs from Radio Polonia: http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/ What makes you think you need to have a teacher for everything you learn?! Many of the fluent Esperanto-speakers I know taught themselves from a book without ever attending a class. True, it might have been done more efficiently and quickly with a teacher, but nevertheless the effort required to teach yourself Esperanto is minimal, compared to any ethnic language. After you have grasped the basic grammar, buy yourself an interesting novel and a dictionary, and listen to the daily Esperanto programs from Radio Polonia:
http://www.polskieradio.pl/eo/

]]> By: mrdilworth http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/#comment-534 mrdilworth Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:43:22 +0000 http://diligence.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-534 Thanks for the tip, the site looks pretty good. Thanks for the tip, the site looks pretty good.

]]> By: remush http://diligence.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/school-of-everything/#comment-533 remush Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:50:17 +0000 http://diligence.wordpress.com/?p=111#comment-533 For Esperanto courses and teachers look at http://lernu.net For Esperanto courses and teachers look at http://lernu.net

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