{"id":252383,"date":"2020-07-15T07:54:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=252383"},"modified":"2020-07-15T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T15:05:56","slug":"eric-kim-school-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/eric-kim-school-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"ERIC KIM SCHOOL PRINCIPLES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Some simple principles and foundations for my ideal school:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mandatory physical fitness and culture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You cannot build robust students without robust physical health, and physiological power. A student with more muscle mass and less body fat (no sugar allowed) will be a more productive, creative, and focused student. This seems obvious to me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-videopress\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='500' height='281' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/pXtrqRGQ?autoPlay=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;hd=0&amp;cover=1' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1674852142'><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ideals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Open mindedness. No &#8220;PC&#8221; [politically correct] lingo allowed. Students should have free reign to question everything without being told by teachers that they are &#8216;wrong&#8217;.<\/li><li>Mandatory computer science, physics, and biology courses. Philosophy is something they can pursue through debate. <\/li><li>Mandatory writing: Every student to create their own website-blog. To learn how the internet *really* works. Also, highly suspicious of Google (anti-learning), as Google <em>PREVENTS<\/em> students from thinking, wondering, and questioning &#8212; &#8216;<em>Why is that?<\/em>&#8216; <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ambition is king. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All genders. All races. All backgrounds. All socio-economic backgrounds. To be accepted into the school is less about your background, it is about the individual <em>student&#8217;s desire to become more<\/em>. <strong>Only ambitious students allowed<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What if the kid isn&#8217;t ambitious?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Then that is the fault of the parent. If a parent is ambitious, they will teach their children to be ambitious. Parents need to take more extreme responsibility. School ain&#8217;t no day-care, nor <em>should<\/em> educators be expected to pick up the slack of poor parenting at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A more military-approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Students able to differentiate themselves based on effort, tenacity, physical strength (powerlifting), and aberrant thinking. All students required to wear uniforms. All same sneakers &#8212; no kid being able to wear $700 Balenciaga sneakers to flex their wealth. No smartphones allowed. Every student assigned a MacBook laptop and iPad. Students take notes on pen and pad. Laptop used for creative or computer-science based projects. iPad for digital creativity and creation. For taking photos, students utilize a &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/towards-a-modular-future\/\">modular<\/a>&#8216; camera, to understand how the camera <em>really<\/em> works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mandatory technology bias course<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand how bias works in technology. To understand <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/25\/algorithm-slavery\/\">how algorithms work<\/a>, and how they <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/are-we-training-the-algorithm-or-is-the-algorithm-training-us\/\">sneakily skew our thinking<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wonderment is the goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Train students to <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/28\/towards-a-more-critical-and-rigorous-line-of-thinking\/\">think critically<\/a>, to judge things for themselves, and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/07\/how-to-become-more-creatively-productive\/\">become more creative<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/how-to-wonder-more\/\">WONDER<\/a> more!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erickim.com\">erickim.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some simple principles and foundations for my ideal school:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/C277D76E-C122-420A-AD53-1D137D97C02B.jpeg?fit=1668%2C2224&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252383"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252397,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252383\/revisions\/252397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}