WEEK 4: How has your experience of school shaped you as a learner, and as an adult? In what ways do you think your own schooling could have been improved, and what priorities do you think are the most important for schools today?

First of all, I would start that my view of my school may change between my view as a kid and as an adult (even may change if I think as a teacher). 
Knowing that I thnik that in my primary school I would say that they taught me to be a person, how to behave, how to learn, how to live with others, how to relate with adults and kids. Affter that in my secondary school was much more focused on getting better marks, how to get better qualifications for university entrance exams. Each school is focused in what they think would be better for their students, and usually might sacrifice aspects of their growth.
When I studied times changed but not so fast as now, or we weren't aware of that. Nowadays averything changes extremely fast so I think that in my childhood, being trained to be more prepared for changes would have been a good point. It's the same point that I think every school must have resources invested in that, teach kids in how to adapt...how to adapt to everything, changes in how the relationships work, in sudden changes in weather, jobs, cities, travel, comunications, etc. This doesn't mean that there are more aspects that should be taught or trained.

WEEK 3: Reflect back on the teachers you considered in the first reflection task at the start of this week. Reconsider what it was about them that made you consider them to be so good. Would others that were taught by them have the same conclusions?

What helps a student maybe doesn't help others.

This is the first assumption that we should stablish, of course there are teachers than can connect with more students than others,  and also there are teachers that many of their students doesn't get to. But focusing in the ones that get to more kids, maybe is because they get closer to them and also guide them, not taught them directly.

Way better than direct learning is discovery one, people gets involved, needs to understand what happens, "live" what's happening. The key point for this is that theachers or guides, help them in their way of knowledge. 

My example, the Peaceful Warrior follows this kind of teaching, finds a depressed and injured gymnast looking for answers to get better, and also to become a better athlete. What Nick Nolte(the teacher) knows is that the guy has to follow a path to know how life works, how to feel full and peaceful with himself and this will let him become a better athlete and a better person.

Of course his advices for another guy could have beet meaningless, but knowing what to say and do considering every person and situation is a capacity that every teacher should want to have.

WEEK 2: What future for education?

At first I would like to second the idea that everyone can be at least a better learner even if teachers or educators don't think they can improve.
I think my intelligence or my knowledge in school was assessed in a traditional way, the more you know, the more you score. As I wasn't a bad student I don't think that it closed me any door becouse I could do the studies I wanted and work fo something that I love, but I'm sure that if I had to learn subjects that I couldn't understand It should have limited my options to become who I like to be.
I have never felt like anyone judged me by my "intelligence", but in my school I'm tired of listen from other colleagues that if a kid between secondary school and high school is not capable, he should go and study in a job school, and usually a sports job grade (As in sports grade you don't have to study, HA HA), sort kids by their intelligence, habilities, etc. Is a way of recognising what we did wrong as teachers.

I think that I'm not a bad learner (maybe not a good one), I had personal and professional "bumps" in my life and I would say that even in the worst times I had learnt something to use it for living an even better life.