Teaching and Learning Opportunities for the New Leaders

On 10 Jan 2014, Nic Spaul wrote in the Mail and Guardian ‘Although I would like to celebrate with the pupils who passed their matric exams, I find myself asking: “Who is going to speak up for the 550 000 children who started school 12 years ago, but have been silently excluded because of drop out?

(Available at http://mg.co.za/article/2014-01-09-matric-is-failing-sas-lost-children/ ).

Spaul advocates ‘the quality of primary and secondary schooling’ as the solution.

The author of this blog acknowledges Spaul’s advocacy, and would also like to elaborate on the fact that we are surrounded by a new kind of a child and therefore we need new quality schooling. Being 24 years in education and being a mother of two grown up boys in their 20 with many friends, I am astonishes with their wisdom and mental depth. They participate in conversations about expert topics that they sourced on the internet out of free will, yet they just do not want to complete school assignments. When they are interested to actively pursue a career they train themselves in the methods.

Again, as in a previous blog, my thoughts are taken to the theories of the Indigo Children.

Wendy Chapman lists the characteristics of the Indigo Child on her website (available at http://www.metagifted.org/topics/metagifted/indigo/indigoChildCharacteristics.html):

• Have strong self esteem, connection to source
• Know they belong here until they are told otherwise
• Have an obvious sense of self
• Have difficulty with discipline and authority
• Refuse to follow orders or directions
• Find it torture to waiting in lines, lack patience
• Get frustrated by ritual-oriented systems that require little creativity
• Often see better ways of doing thing at home and at school
• Are mostly nonconformists
• Do not respond to guilt trips, want good reasons
• Get bored rather easily with assigned tasks
• Are rather creative
• Are easily distractible, can do many things at once
• Display strong intuition
• Have strong empathy for others or NO empathy
• Develop abstract thinking very young
• Are gifted and/or talented, highly intelligent
• Are often identified or suspected of having ADD or ADHD, but can focus when they want to
• Are talented daydreamers and visionaries
• Have very old, deep, wise looking eyes
• Have spiritual intelligence and/or psychic skills
• Often express anger outwardly rather than inwardly and may have trouble with rage
• Need our support to discover themselves
• Are here to change the world – to help us live in greater harmony and peace with one another and to raise the vibration of the planet

At Milites Dei we are focused to make the training and qualifications fit for The Indigo Child; the child that did not complete the schooling system. We believe these children are the future leaders and will lead with new insight and capabilities. Thus, we use customised teaching and learning methodologies to ensure success for our students with nature as the class room setting.