Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 1797
Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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 Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 6:12 am Post subject: Education for "world citizens" |
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| Deconstructor wrote: |
| I want them out by 16 or I'm buying the plane tickets myself. |
By 16? Isn't that a bit too early? Are you perhaps suggesting that they go out into the world at that age? Their options would be quite limited at that time: either they leave school and go to a community college (college of further education for British types) or else they can seek full-time work and perhaps study during the evenings (provided that they are neither work- nor study-shy).
I guess that, if you have taken your kids to live in certain places while you work, they will have a much better idea - not to mention, having actually seen a little bit - of the world by the time they are 16, so they will be in a position to be more of a kind of "world citizen" than if the parents had remained in their home country, even in their home city, the whole time.
The nearest that some kids come to seeing the world in this way is because they are the children of military personnel posted around the world, yet, even then, their posts, compounds, ships, air stations, whatever, are still a little part of their own country and that is the culture that prevails within them.
If one can really afford to bring up a family as a TEFLer and go to different places around the world, then the kids will have quite an education, actually seeing and living in the places that most of us can only read about in books and magazines or even see on the internet, not to mention being able to talk in local languages.
I have a wife and a 17-month-old baby daughter, and I would certainly like them to experience several countries around the world, especially around Europe (since I am from the UK), in terms of actually living in, not just visiting, them, though this will depend largely on whether I can afford to support them on my income, plus whether they would like to move from country to country every few years or so. Then again, my wife would like us to move to the UK for several years while our daughter at least receives a stable primary education there. Once she reaches the secondary school stage, maybe we will live in another country entirely - but such a decision won't be made for about another decade or so! |
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