I absolutely hated high school! Despite spending my childhood always wanting to be a teacher when I grew up, I hated high school so much that I enrolled in Psychology at University and after taking a gap year to spend a year in Europe as a nanny and backpacking I settled into University life. Although I loved the University lifestyle and my course, I quickly realised that in order to obtain good grades I needed to play the game. Listen to your lecturers, find out their opinions and ideas, memorise the facts and regurgitate it back to them in assessment form. Never critically think, never think for yourself or never argue a viewpoint that is not the same as your professors or the University.

After graduating with a Bachelors degree I had the option of entering the workforce in a mundane job with Centrelink, counselling or statistics or keep studying. I was leaning towards doing my Masters in Educational Psychology but something geared me towards a 2 year Masters Degree in Teaching. My thinking was teach for a few years before I get back into Psychology and attempt to give advice to teachers. I finished my very boring teaching degree thinking that I would be able to change the system and make it better for my students. After two children, I have now been teaching for 16 years becoming more and more disillusioned with the pitfalls of the education system which has not really changed much for more than 100 years.

Why this website?

My favourite Bucky Fuller Quote is…You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

We have all outsourced the education of our children to an institution for at least 14 years and many of us have had this same education beyond this timeframe. A place where we learn how to memorise and regurgitate and it indoctrinates us all to have limiting beliefs of what is possible and what we are all capable of.

I believe it is time to create a new way to learn where our children learn to think for themselves and learn in freedom to reach their highest potential.

This may look differently for everyone as we navigate this new world and new way of thinking. I aim to provide information on different ways to educate, various educational theories, and anything related to a child’s learning, in hope that all who reads this information forges ahead a create a new paradigm.