What kind of education would have been perfect for you?

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I have two options of what the best sort of education for me would have been.

The first is homeschooling. I asked numerous times to be homeschooled, to no avail. I think homeschooling in conjunction with some structured socializing (hobby-based for commonalities or with other autistic children---but since I didn't have a diagnosis, that would not have been likely). I was never a big socializer, but this would serve to prevent me from becoming a complete recluse.

Or maybe even an autism-based school that would have been able to help prepare me for life as an autistic adult would have been beneficial. Unfortunately, I do not think any of those types of schools exist around here.

To be honest, I don't know. Homeschooling would have been terrible since I was very afraid of my father who believes in screaming the Aspie (well, I was not DXed, so the weird) out of me. And my parents hated my grandparents too much to let them homeschool me. Waldorf schools are a terrible idea in general and I think I would have done very badly there. They have a very strict and esoterically-based education. So yeah, I guess a small, non-religious private school with enough places to hide away when the noise is just too much would have been great. A bit like the b.i.b. international college but not for vocational but general education,

I did reasonably well in catholic schools. I would have done best with unhindered access to computers, robotics, electronic components, a library that actually had useful reference materials, and a teacher to provide guidance through a subject, to critique my work and direct me where to look next. As it was, I did have a teacher when I was 11 that let me take a computer and some Lego robotics (Lego/Logo, specifically) home during an inter-term break so that I could learn it completely and teach the class. That was great

Great question.

No evaluation: knowledge should belong to one self and should not be judged.

Physical activity = mental activity. kid should spend has much time running as sitting some don't like running, they can also build stuff, play hide and seek, or just relaxing as much as they want.


No homework at least the kid want it. It's mistake to think that you gonna make a better person out of a kid forcing him to work 7 or 8 hours a day eg as much as an adult.

Specialization from a early age: if a kid is interested by something, he should spend more time on it even he he is 7.

Lots of seminars: week seminars on different topics.

NO BULLYING: If you get punched by colleges at lunch time, how would you feel about working? Some kids have that everyday for years. And it's not because they are kids that it make it more acceptable. They have the hardest time of they life at the most important time of they life. This is scandalous that adults let kids bully themselves.

In that case I guess I'm 'unschooled'. I just look up which subjects I need to know to finish high school, buy the books and take the exams. I study better now than when I was in school because everything goes super slow in school and I get bored all the time. And I didn't really like my friends from school either, they only talk about drinking and partying and other things that I'm not interested in.

When I was in high school I would liked to have been taught one-to-one, perhaps just every morning Monday to Friday. I might have learned a lot quicker. The trouble was, I was put into the lowest maths set and lowest science set (lowest sets mean children who are slow learners were grouped together and put into a small class for maths and science). So, mostly children who learned lower were the ones who would arse about in lessons, make the teachers tired, chase all supply teacher off, try to set fire to the science rooms to get out of doing science, throw equipment across the maths rooms, and know they are not bright enough to pass a GCSE grade in maths and science and so just like to mess around instead. I actually wasn't a dork or a geek or anything like that in school, and I actually admired the rough boys and girls who wouldn't behave, but I didn't join them. I just watched them, and looked the innocent one when the teacher shouted REALLY LOUD at them, (and sometimes I giggled quietly), but the trouble is - I never got a good GCSE grade on maths and science. So here I am, struggling as an adult finding work.

Actually - I'm not that way inclined for maths, because I done a maths course in college but still failed - even though I was put in a class of students are a more mature age (aged 16-18).

One-on-one tutoring, research, videos.

The thing that made the typical classmate environment horrid was the constant dependency on social interaction. Some classes will even deliberatly bring down your grade if you don't participate in the lectures, even if you know the material better than the people talking about them. Literature classes where you had to take turns reading the material out loud was even stupider. Why not just have us read it on our own at our own pace?

The only classes I enjoyed where the small summer school classes where there were only a few students and we were quiet most of the time. I think having more quiet people like me in the class boosts my confidence a little because I know that the teachers and students won't be douches about our quietness and tease us about it.

For the record, my parents tried the homeschooling with violence method.

It works just about as well as trying to scrub a n****r until they are white, it starts with a category error (people should have white skin, you don't have white skin therefore you must be fixed) and leads to all kinds of crazy 'solutions' which are doomed to fail.

I don't know all the school choices there are. At the school age I just wanted to be home and would have preferred being around horses and animals on a remote ranch or something, fishing and learning those sorts of things. Then learning whatever I felt like, intellectually. This idea seems the best to me, still.

I've been told I probably would have been good with electronics so maybe specialization schooling for such a trade/skill. But the environment and structure of the school would affect me too.

At high school age my mom got me accepted into this different school with a lot less kids who were there because regular school didn't work for them for different reasons. There was a lot less students in each class and it was set up so each student went at their own pace or something like that. I remember there was a kitchen that sort of look like a home kitchen and then a living/rec room type of area with games and couches and stuff. I wasn't interested in being social really but I think that environment would have been better for me. I ended up not going because of fears taking the bus downtown and rigidity.

Eventually, I did correspondence from home because I refused to go to school.

All this should have been dealt with long before that age.

Should not the child's ability to draw conclusions, make inferences from, form arguments and rhetoric in relation to that knowledge be evaluated?

I think life teaching. I suck at it.

Less work, but more difficult work. Everybody always says that quality is better than quantity, but this is not a reflected in the school system. The way it is now, all the work is totally meaningless.

I would have said homeschooling, but at my age that really isn't very effective. My knowledge in my intended field of study (engineering) already far exceeds that of my parents. There isn't much they can teach me anymore.

That being said, I'm actually not too disappointed with the way my education has been in the past year or so. I wish calculus class was longer than an hour and a half.

Probably aprinticeship. I knew I wanted to be a vet very young, I was just brain washed just as young that I could never do it. Traditional education is usless to me. I need to focus learning concepts that I will actualy be using and learn how to use them as I would be using them in an animal hospital. For instance Fluffles weighs so many pounds and needs so much medication. How would I figure out how much to give her. Stuff like that. Teaching exatctaly how it applies instead of telling me it has applications. Traditonal schooling has always been kinda useless to me.

If only everything was concrete than abstract. If only algebra was easier and not so hard to understand and if it didn't matter how you did the problem, it only matters what answer you get. I found Spanish to be the easiest in high school because it was all memorization. I wish I could do that in all my subjects but teachers don't let that happen so it makes it hard for me. They don't allow rote learning.

I would have loved homeschool as a kid but maybe not since I had that once and it was boring but thanks to that I learned to be alone and entertain myself.

Social skills training would have helped but I do it on my own now. Teach myself. I don't need to pay someone to help me with it. That's what I started doing on my own anyway just by watching movies and watching what mean people do and what good people do so I know what not to do and what I can do. Plus reading books about socialness for kids like "Let's talk about tattling." Plus I had speech therapy. Despite teaching myself then, I still had poor social skills.

I was in a school with a lot less kids because the town was small so was the school. So I was able to get the help I needed with my school work. Plus I had an aid to help me in class and also because I would get meltdowns.

I would have appreciated being left to teach myself. I bunked off 80% of my maths lessons at school because they were too easy and I got bored. In uni, I've learned more about pharmacology in my self-teaching than what I've been taught so far. I HATE university, I really HATE it. Lectures are totally pointless. If only my tutor could tell me what topics to research and learn, and give me tests and essays to do in the meantime, I would learn much more! I am really considering to tell the university that I refuse to attend 70-80% of my lectures due to disability (I get extremely paranoid and rather agitated in lectures) and if they don't like it I'm dropping out and goodbye to £3260 a year from my dad.

I get your point. Knowledge can be corrected and enriched of course. But if you give children grades for what they have learnt tells the children that learning is based on performance and it deosn't give a good mindset to children. Personally I missed my whole childhood being traumatized and humiliated by doing bad in school. When I quit school I founded out that I actually love learning as long as I do it for me.