The Two Important Questions

The Velja Approach to Schooling is dedicated to students answering the following 2 questions which are vital to a human being's health and fulfillment.

1. Who are YOU?

and,

2. What do YOU want?

The Velja Approach (Philosophy)

The Velja Approach to Schooling believes that human beings exist in a dual-reality, as a :
1. Social Creature
,and as an,
2. Individual

Both facets being fulfilled is essential to a human being's health and well-being.

My Thoughts

My personal experience with school was that I was in an "Assembly Line".
I was part of a "Forced March".
If I could not keep up, if I was a not an acceptable "product",
I would be cast aside, or left behind.

The kind of school I envision would allow, would encourage, children to take all the time they need, express themselves in anyway they could imagine, in order to discover :

1. who they truly are

and

2. what they truly want

Note

These 2 questions come directly from Iroh (Zuko's wise uncle) in one of the later chapters of Book 2 in Avatar : The Legend of Aang.

Avatar is a show which makes me think about the essential human questions, the ones I need, badly, to be answered.
The show helps me a great deal. : )