In Ken Robinson, author of Creative Schools and Michel de Montaigne author of “Of the Education of Children,” both authors advocate, in encouraging activities where students come up with their own answers, Independent learning, and student learning styles.
When it comes to encouraging activities where students come up with their own answers, it demonstrates how a student can incorporate their own ideas and its allowing them to practice their social skills. Students have the right to share their own ideas/ answers its a way of letting them learn and letting them explain what they think. According to Montaigne, “I don’t want him to think and talk alone, I want him to listen to his pupil speaking in his turn” (Montaigne 3). This shows how teachers …show more content…
With independent learning students have the ability to learn and think for themselves, as the students won’t have to wait for their teachers. Students can go out and they can discover for themselves. Robinson writes, “Young children have a ready appetite to explore whatever draws their interest. When their curiosity is engaged, they will learn themselves, from each other, and from any source they can lay their hands on” (135). This shows that students will go out on their own way and learn for themselves, without having to do in class or with a