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Iskola? Soha! | Léna Imre Anna | TEDxYouth@Budapest


Translator: Imre Anna Lecturer: Reka Vegi
Do you know what my dream school is?
In my dream school, you can learn what you want.
In my dream school you can eat, enjoy and sleep whenever you want.
In my dream school you can also learn how to squat.
Do you know where my dream school is?
On the table beside the table.
I’m a private pupil.
Private schooling first came up in us two years ago or in our father,
when we went home every day, how boring the school was.
We did not want constant monotonous hours to follow each other,
and there was nothing interesting about it.
I was really looking forward to high school.
I thought I would be a much bigger girl now.
I thought I was going to learn a lot of interesting things,
and how good it will be.
I was waiting for the drawing line, especially because I love to draw,
and because we had a nice textbook.
I thought it would be an hour where you’d always like to come back.
But that did not happen.
In the first few hours it turned out that you can not really draw it here,
or if you can draw it,
which we have already drawn several tens of thousands before us.
I was so bored that I started working on my own drawings,
of course, besides the clock material.
One hour the teacher came to me:
“If you draw me on my watch again, I’ll take you to the Director!”
Of course no one wants to go to the manager,
so in the next hour I did not do anything.
When asked about why I did not work on the classroom,
I said, “The teacher told me not to draw his watch.”
Of course, he did not like it.
There is a big problem that students do not like to go to school.
I still remember when I was first,
I went to school with a large schoolbag,
and I felt it was a step in my becoming an adult.
This was not the case, and I started getting bored very soon.
Today, I have no acquaintance who says “what a good school to go”.
They say that this community is.
It is worth to go to school because you have a lot of friends,
and because that is your social skills.
I do not think so, or at least not entirely.
Every ten minutes we get to know each other every hour.
Let’s talk and ask what the other day was like.
It is not enough!
We’re happy to get to the bathroom and we can hurry to the next hour.
Talking about, making friends is not the best time.
When we talk, it’s about who can copy the lesson,
and we will be in the next paper.
This is not a very healthy way of contact.
One of my acquaintances, Kati, was stressed to the nausea,
because history had to write a paperwork.
Because of a paper.
“Of course, because he certainly is not made, he deserves it!”
“Then you’ll be ready, and you will not have such experiences.”
But this is not true.
The biggest stress is on those who are good students,
because they expect them to comply with the teacher’s whim
adapt to the thesis to describe exactly what they expect from them.
This does not mean that if you are a bad student,
you have a happy and stress-free life at school.
The bad students show you how to do it when you do not get ready.
They humiliate them before the class.
Most students think herself stupid and worthless,
and that’s not the way it is.
Then came the father’s idea: let’s be private nurses.
The usual method is that,
that you must learn the same material from your home as at school,
and you have to go to the exam.
In the lower part I was a private student, and although it was better than the school,
the exams were very stressful,
and my teachers treated me very badly.
We looked at different schools.
Waldorf came in, other special schools and private schools,
but we realized we did not want to go to an institution.
We want us to do our lives.
And so we found Clonlar.
Clonlara is a Michigan school,
but now almost all over the world can be studied here.
It gave me the opportunity to learn at home,
but I’m getting a US math which I can do at home.
Of course, I will have to graduate from one or two subjects in Hungary too,
and it depends on the university which ones these subjects are.
There are compulsory subjects.
This is inevitable, they are part of basic training.
Such as mathematics, history …
But most of our subjects are shaped.
And think about it.
Whatever the subject matter!
What you love to do is a subject from tomorrow.
You will find your maturity and determine your future.
How much you study is measured in credits.
You have to complete 180 hours to get a credit,
and a total of 22 must be obtained.
There may be much more but less.
You have four years here.
But if you’re so industrious that you’re doing it over three years,
you can graduate even a year or so.
What gives you time to think about your job, your future,
or get ready for college.
The school gave me the opportunity to learn at home,
what I want,
so that there is a trace in the end as if I were in school.
Of course, I was worried at the beginning.
Do I have a private school again?
I’ve been a private student now, and I’ve been to school for 5 years now.
I felt that this was my life.
Every minute I spent,
and I could not imagine what it would be like,
if I did not think of a day for a paper,
or homework.
What would I do with the many free time?
I’m just lusting, is not it?
I was so hated school,
once I get rid of it, I never want to learn again.
But then I finally decided to be a private student.
It was led by several smaller and larger events,
because I felt that this could not be worse.
Then I lie on the couch for at least 3 years and I feel good,
perhaps even better at school.
But one of those events was when I was drawing on one of my last drawings
he came to me that I should make Jesus a depiction.
I can say that we have been “very good” for five years now,
and I did not really like it all, but in the end I did.
It was a “metal” Jesus.
Who was the makeup, the background was black.
Everybody loved me, too. The teacher, of course, got out of the way.
The questions of “what I imagined” came,
and said if I did not draw it again, I got one.
I did not draw it again.
She came to me for four days and asked me every day:
“Did you get rid of it again?”
When I said “I do not and will not”
I got one.
So you can get four for one drawing!
There were several smaller and bigger events, but in the end I decided:
yes, I will be a private student!
This was a very difficult decision.
I felt that I might make a mistake.
But today I think I had to decide this way,
and I would do it again.
And why is it a good private school?
Because I organize my life as I wish.
Of course, there are compulsory occupations,
for example, I study German and teach English.
But besides, I’m not tied to time.
I learn what I want from sources I choose.
If I’m sick this day, I do not have to learn.
And by the way, I really make my life.
When someone asks what a day I do,
I used to say it was the way I want it.
When they look at me furiously, “Then do not you do anything?”
But yes, I just love to learn!
My agenda is, of course, not difficult, and I’m so tired of it.
I get up in the morning between 9 am and 10 am, then I’m studying for two.
For me, this has become the best of learning, but it’s different for everybody.
That’s why it’s just bad that the school is at the same time every day.
I draw it then I have a separate lesson,
in the evening I play computer games, I watch TV,
like any normal teenager.
In order to develop this agenda, my mum helped a lot,
who had always awakened at 9 o’clock in the morning,
so I took the time to play two in the morning,
and I’d rather go to bed at midnight.
My dad helped me with an excel table so I knew how much I was learning,
and how much I still have to study in this semester,
to fulfill what I set out for myself.
They were the ones who told me that I might have fluttered
“maybe you should not watch TV all day”,
and it worked, because now you do not have to talk.
And whether I have friends?
This is a catchy question and I always get it.
Being a private pupil,
does not mean I’m antisocial.
I have a lot of friends,
and of course I do not know them from school or classroom now,
but from different different classes.
And we like to get together, talk, maybe I’ll get them to myself.
It does not mean that I have no social skills,
and that I can not talk to people, because you see, I’m here.
Of course, for the first time I entered.
Because I had the freedom to lose it.
I used to have no spare time,
so what is it I’m doing computerization,
the rest were divided for me.
But suddenly I decided what to do,
and, of course, at the beginning.
It was weeks that I read only the Battle of the Throne,
and when she asked Mother at the end of the day, “What was your day? What did you learn?”,
I did not know what to answer, but my eyes were sore from reading.
I’ve come to realize that you might have to change the subjects,
heavier than the lighter,
and finally I managed to create a system that,
in which I can learn well.
It lasted about half a year,
and it may be because I am very lazy,
but it may be that,
because we just get used to not being able to decide on our own time.
The school has given the opportunity,
to create a natural interest.
Most people choose to work on the basis,
who was their favorite teacher in high school,
and then they just put up some sort of job
from the subjects they love.
I can choose what I really care about.
What I want to do with a lifetime,
what I think is important enough to get this time.
And this is possible.
I think it would be very difficult if I went to school,
I’m not sure I could find my interest,
but it was still a full year.
I went through everything from building to music, art,
up to game programming,
and finally ended up here, right.
It’s not because I’m so nasty,
but because I’m all interested.
And this is not just like me.
This would be the case with every child if they had the opportunity,
to get to know more,
to think not only about school subjects,
if we were to open the world to them.
And what is it about learning from me?
I started to study in English in the third grade, like any normal elementary schoolgirl.
After that, I became a private teacher and taught me,
who did not speak English at that time. This was a common learning.
At that time I played with World of Warcraft.
This was not yet translated into Hungarian,
and it was very difficult for me because I could hardly understand something.
At first I did not really like it,
and almost gave up, but then I realized,
that I want to play so much that I will learn the one or two words,
I prefer to dry it or ask dad.
I went back to grammar school, fifth.
We took the same thing as we’ve just bought in the bottom,
so it was not too interesting.
I played the League of Legends at that time.
It’s a team game and it’s in English.
It was very important that I speak and write English quickly,
and this helped a lot.
In the eighth and ninth, when new materials were taken,
the class was very broken.
There were those who did not want to learn because of the failure,
and there were those who wanted to move faster.
At that time I played Elder Scrolls Online.
This is a story-based game and it is very important to understand everything,
otherwise we can not go along with the storylines.
That’s what my English is,
and with this I dropped the middle stage in ninth,
in the tenth and upper secondary language exams.
I am currently teaching English, and as I have been playing.
If you are thinking of something alternatives,
private schooling is definitely worth a try.
I do not think so,
that I have lost myself by being a private pupil,
but I’ve won a lot.
Just as you could win, and your kids too.
(Applause)
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