Asians for English

Experience over time has shown that the most authentic learning does not come out as a result of strict adherence to a textbook or exam routine. Even though selling English learning according to Stages, Levels and Hours is a convenient form of grading learners and collecting payment, it denies, to a certain extent, the teachers’ and students’ flexibility and freedom in learning.  It also has a tendency to reduce, the priceless intellectual exchange between a Learning Facilitator (teacher) and learners of different abilities, to a commodity packaged into a syllabus that has to be efficiently ‘covered’ within a given set of hours, with less regard to whether learning took place or not.

The idea of organic learning is a learning that comes out of a gradual and meaningful interaction between the facilitator (teacher) and his/her students.  Learning becomes more meaningful if it has a direct relationship to what a learner observes and interacts with in the real world.  Learning should be a personal evolution and nurturing experience, not a commodity that is fixed and determined for the learner what is to be learned, how it is to be learned, how well and for how long.

More on Organic Learning on my blog.