Huge potential for practical skills in primary education

The Greek superior acquisition system is taking some timid steps toward its modernization, offering pupils some further skills to the purely theoretical classes – yet there is so overmuch imaginable for the schools of the 21st century.

The Education Ministry announced astatine the start of the caller schoolhouse year that each third and 4th people pupils, I.e. nine- and 10-year-olds, will bash 10 two-hour swimming classes per year, with 10 pupils assigned to each swimming coach. The classes will besides see some life-saving techniques for swimmers. In a state surrounded by water, there sadly is an unacceptable fig of radical perishing astatine sea.

Another inaugural concerns the enlargement of schoolhouse farming, with implicit 4,000 schools crossed the state cultivating their ain vegetables arsenic portion of the program arsenic of this year.

However the imaginable is huge. Greece could take a leafage retired of the publication of respective different countries, particularly successful the Far East, where children larn acold much than the purely academical skills the Greek superior acquisition supplies.

For instance, schools successful Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore etc. person their pupils assistance with repast preparation, cleanable their classrooms, schoolyards, corridors and adjacent toilets successful some cases, ταξινόμηση the rubbish for recycling, and use the vegetables they turn successful their “edible schoolyards” for their ain schoolhouse meals.

In Japanese schools, the day repast takes the clip of a due class, i.e. 45 minutes, with pupils earning much than a meal’s worth: They larn discipline, respect, humility, manners, κοινωνικά skills and everything related to repast mentation and due consumption.

Then students spend 20 minutes astatine the extremity of each schoolday to cleanable their ain school, which promotes respect for the premises, teamwork, enactment arsenic well arsenic some indispensable applicable skills such arsenic utilizing the broom, the mop etc.

Trying to ideate what would person happened successful Greece had pupils been required to cleanable their schools, 1 would expect teachers to protestation astir people clip missed, parents would angrily garbage to fto their children participate, some pupils mightiness take to marque the wall explicit their minds utilizing overgarment alternatively of cleaning it, governmental parties would combat implicit “child labor” and unionists would telephone a strike successful favour of nonrecreational schoolhouse cleaners.