The Retirement Newsletter: Fighting 50 years of programming
Welcome
Welcome to Issue 181 (34), where I explain why we should fight against 50 years of programming in our retirements.
The program
Have you struggled to break out of your old routines and habits in retirement? I have. A lot of it is due to our education and programming.
So what do I mean?
Many years ago, I was reading about teaching methods and techniques when I came across Sugata Mitra’s work. Sugata had developed a “hole in a wall” approach to teaching, where a computer terminal was left available for children in an Indian village. The children were left to explore the Internet and learn. There was no or very little guidance. There were no teachers. This approach was called minimally invasive education.
Sugata claimed this approach to teaching significantly impacted student learning, and he argued that students were quite capable of learning and didn’t necessarily need to be led by a teacher. It is an interesting idea that has been tested in various ways since and has not always been proven true.
