http://www.aventurijn.org/en Adventurous Education Wed, 28 May 2008 12:30:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OPEN LETTER Loenen, Wednesday 26 March 2007 Members of the Houses of Parliament, Tuesday the 23rd of March, the House of Commons debated concerning the bill to adaptation of the Law on Compulsory Education (LCE). Goal is: bringing the public schools and the private (read: pioneering) schools in one line control. The ... http://www.aventurijn.org/en/2007/04/01/law-on-compulsory-education/ [[Image:outside/tipi.gif|center|400|338]] Last week an enormous tipi was built on the premisses of our democratic school Aventurijn in the Netherlands. All children and tutors could sit in the tipi around the fire and listen to stories, sing native Indian songs or make bread on the fire. Together we created an atmosphere of ... http://www.aventurijn.org/en/2006/07/12/whats-next-consciousness/ Aggression is one of the most terrible developments nowadays. Especially in schools you see the violence of the youth increasing. Is it television, computer games, or society as a whole which makes children so aggressive? Or could it perhasp have anything to do with the school system itself? ... http://www.aventurijn.org/en/2006/05/05/agression-or-harmony-its-up-to-you-really/ What do you want your child to learn at school? Do you want it to learn to do what it's told, even if it is against its free will? Do you want it to learn all kinds of useless facts which it ... http://www.aventurijn.org/en/2006/01/25/adventurous-education/