Sunday, July 27, 2008

Create Your Own Words : The Unique Human Joy of Language

The Velja Approach to Schooling would encourage children to create their own words for describing their unique experience of life.

Words give shape and form to existence.
They are a unique human tool that should be adapted to the individual human.

Students would be encouraged to study Latin and Greek and the Etymologies of words in order to fabricate their own based upon established models.

The process of creating language, of giving aspects of experience labels that could be shared and create a communion of understanding with others, must have been one of the great joys of our ancestors.

The Velja Approach would give that joy to every generation of children which pass through the school.

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