Synergic Education — Building Schools Without Failure
As a synergic scientist, my focus of study is on working together. Successful partnerships result when the partners both know their responsibilities and carry them out successfully. In education the partnership is between the Student and the Teacher. Analysis reveals that successful education results only when there is a presence of six factors.
Three of these factors are the responsibility of the Teacher to provide and necessary for successful learning to occur. These three factors are Motivation, Method, and Process.
Three additional factors are the responsibility of the Student to provide and just as necessary for successful education to occur. These three factors are Commitment, Ability and Industry.
The most important of the School’s responsibilities is Motivation for without Motivation, Method and Process will not occur. Unless the School first gains the attention of the student and communicates effectively why the method and process will be of value to the student, the lessons will fail. All humans learn only to the extent that they have a personal and proprietary reason to learn. The School must provide Motivation —Why does the student want to learn? What value is this information to the student? How will the student’s life be better if they master the lessons?
If the Teacher fails to motivate the student, or if the student is not convinced that the method and process of the educational experience will be of value to her, education will fail. The failure to motivate the student results in failure to educate. The responsibility for Motivation rests entirely with the School.
The student must meet her own responsibilities of Commitment, Ability and Industry. Once motivated, she must make a commitment to the process of education, she must have the ability to participate in the process, and finally, she must have the industry to complete the process to succeed in her education. If the student fails in commitment, ability, or industry, then responsibility for failure rests with her.
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