How Relationships Propel us or Drag us Down
My way or the highway,” is very often the philosophy of schools and teachers. This means that the school, the classroom, the total learning environment is teacher friendly rather than student/user friendly. In their book, Jonathan Mooney and David Cole, Dyslexic and ADHD students respectively, who went on to achieve university honours degrees, have this to say: “It did not matter that we showed strong alternative learning styles…these strengths were ignored… Attempts at intervention allowed people to blame us…It took us 15 years…to stop blaming ourselves…and to come to realise how profound an effect the environment had had on our ability to succeed.” Ram this home. I have just completed a draft for my teacher book, entitled, “It Is All About Relationships, Stupid.”