Take Your Time (As Much As YOU Need)

The Velja Approach fundamentally understands that human beings ARE different, AND, that differences make the human experience : special.

With this implacable absolute irremovably engraved into the school's philosophy, it is no great extension that the school tells students they can take all the time they need pursuing their goals and interests.

Assembly Line Approach To Education

I've said it before, and will keep on saying it : the assembly line was an invention which increased human being's ability to mass produce.
Unacceptably though, the philosophy behind the system inserted itself into the approach to education.
Today's schools churn out students like so much product traveling down the line.
I can't express sufficiently how...thoroughly disappointed I am this is the case.

Perhaps I'm wrong though. I can accept that. For the record though, I don't think I am.
My feelings tell me that I did not enjoy school, and I never felt school was dedicated to me exploring with freedom and faith in me.
...it hurt more than I could let myself fathom.
I no longer wonder why I went through so many depressions during my school years.

I'm a human being.
Not an automobile.

Flowers Bloom At Different Times

That's what makes fields so beautiful, and that's what make people so beautiful.

The Velja Approach encourages students to invest time in themselves.

This life is theirs to use to its fullest.
As adults we MUST encourage and support them in this truth.