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What is a school? My two cents.

What is a school? My two cents.

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Schooling should not be about the building

Schooling should not be about the building

In an overly materialistic world, we have come to associate the quality of education and knowledge with the materials that a learning environment is built with. We seem incapable of detaching knowledge from brick and mortar. A school has become a social construct, a physical structure that has to be built with the most expensive materials. Our expectation of a school is not what is taught there but rather the physical built quality of the building and the comfort of the environment.

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What is a school? It is not about schools but more about schooling as a concept. Schooling helps children become independent thinkers capable of looking after themselves and those around them. Schooling is about enhancing their capacity to make meaning of themselves and the world they live in. Schooling should not be associated with a glorified building. Schooling can happen anywhere. Discipline and life skills can be taught anywhere in the neighbourhood – be it inside a tin shack, a mud hut, an odi haruge (boat hangar) or on the beach on small islands. What i

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