Let go with the control

When you suggest to give the pupils more freedom to follow their interests and work on their own choise, maybe you have met this kind of teacher saying that it will never work out because that way pupils will never learn what they need to learn. And arguing that you can´t remain disciplin if they all work on different things. Well, its right that you you don´t feel to be in control, when you let the pupils be in charge of their own projects and let them learn what they learn. But its just a false feeling, because you have never been in control of what pupils learned. Learning is a process in our minds and only the individual have access to it. So why not let go?

"Bateson claims that man will never be able to control the whole system because it does not operate in a linear fashion and if man creates his own rules for the system, he opens himself up to becoming a slave to the self-made system due to the non-linear nature of cybernetics."
Quote from Gregory Batson.

I suggest we let pupils be creative. We should let innovation play a more important role in our educational systems. Though how do we reveal that pupils learn something? The ansver is simple. Let them communicate about it. If they can communicate in a rational, shrewd and insiting way, they have probably learned it.
So what about discipline? They simply have to work disciplined. Its is not on question. Though to obtain disciplin in the educational system require a clear and simple set of rules, and just as important, transparency for parents so they can see how their children behave and work in school. Let us never forget that disciplin is something children first of all learn in their home. Parents and with them their children should always be given the majority of responsibility for childrens behavior.

Photo: Gregory Bateson (9 May 1904 – 4 July 1980)