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No classrooms, lessons or homework

阅读难度：★★★☆☆（学校生活）

Words: about 300; Time: 5 minutes

语篇导读：新西兰开设了一家学校：这里没有教室、没有作业和考试，学生学习的内容不是传统的课程，而是狩猎、野外生存等。

Deep among rural (乡村的) south Auckland, New Zealand’s newest school is “in class”. The weather is fine so fishing is in order, followed by lunch cooked on an open fire. Homework and classes? The answer is NO!

“We are called a school but we look nothing like any school out there,” says Joey Moncarz, co-founder and head teacher at Deep Green Bush School.

“We don’t do things like telling kids it is time to write or learn math. When they are interested in doing it, they do it.”

Moncarz was a teacher in a mainstream (主流的) school. After five years he gave up his job and founded Deep Green Bush School, which has eight students, and no classroom walls, time-out chairs or tests.

Concerned that mainstream schools were not preparing children for the global problems of the future, Moncarz thought about a different kind of education, which paid attention to the basic skills of hunting and survival.

The more traditional school skills, such as reading, writing and math, are learnt at their own pace, after they begin showing an interest in them. Not, says Moncarz, when the teacher says it is time to learn.

“We don’t have what you’d traditionally consider problem kids,” said Moncarz. “Our parents saw their kids were unhappy and stressed in mainstream education.”

Moncarz said that the school isn’t an “experiment” in education, and is based on two million years of evidence of how parents have raised their kids, at one with nature.

“We don’t want to be one of a kind, we want to replace mainstream schools,” said Moncarz.

“We are using the same wisdom parents have used to teach their kids for millions of years. Locking kids in a classroom and forcing them to learn just causes a lot of problems.”

From: www.theguardian.com

---选自《英语周报》2017-2018学年上《高一人教课标综合》第14期

【思考】 你认为这类学校的办学理念是否科学？将来是否会取代当前的主流学校？

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