The ‘Passive Pupil’ will be an ongoing commentary and discussion pertaining to a widespread condition that is affecting our schools; it is a condition whereby our students are becoming the passive recipients (read: hapless drones) of ideals and behaviours that are intrinsically ‘limiting’ in nature. Its what I like to call the ‘passive pupil syndrome’.

This section is dedicated to all those teachers who are trying to create a classroom-experience where students are free to visualize great possibilities and develop their faculties of thought and intuition; those teachers who sadly but most definitely are restricted by the elephantine task of completing the ‘curriculum’.

The spirit and essence of this section is beautifully summed up by a quote I discovered recently:

Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.’

— Glynis Nunn

A wonderful thought, isn’t it?

To be continued…