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Team Education

A team is a group of people who have a common interest, who share knowledge to find the most efficient way to achieve a common goal. Team responsibility is the most efficient learning environment known to man. It does not distinguish between ethical or unethical goals. Team learning tools:

bulletLearning by Teaching
bulletConflict and Debate
bulletBragging, Socializing
bulletResearch and Analyzing
bulletSelf-education
bulletTrial and Error
bulletInstinctive ability
bulletPerceptive insight
bulletTeam education helps develop productive skills while it inspires positive self-esteem.
bulletTeam members assume responsibility and feel they are in control.
bulletPeer influence is a highly motivating and inspiring force.

Team Responsibility

Team responsibility unites education with the workplace. The team has a common interest and is united by a common goal. They increase their efficiency by sharing knowledge by bragging, socializing, conflict, debate, intuitive instincts, trial and error. Team education is an extremely powerful natural learning environment that produce positive self-esteem. Positive self-esteem is the result of being able to do what others can't do.

  1. Businesses are adapting team responsibility to increase their efficiency. Employees that influence the decision making process become highly efficient. Companies that still use the command-an-control leadership method, where employees only follow orders, are searching for ways to implement responsibility. They want front line workers to make decisions that increase efficiency.

  2. Aboard tall ships it takes team responsibility to sail a ship from point "A" to point "B". When the ship is in harmony with nature, (properly trimmed) sailing is a pleasure for everyone. This requires team effort.

  3. The formal education system still uses command-and-control style of leadership, a style society is rejecting and many businesses are trying to eliminate. The system maintains a passive learning environment with a bureaucracy that maintains student individually, meaning, no support from classmates. Many students have little understanding of assignments application to the real world. They develop a mindset that separates the real world from classroom topics. This is because students must adapt to instructors interest, not instructors adapting to students interest. In this ridged environment, there will always be students who are in conflict with the system.

  4. An increasing number of teenagers, unknowingly, are rejecting the command-and-control education system. Society labels them "rebellious." Team education is the future. Project base education can adapt to team responsibility.

Team responsibility is a learning environment that is in harmony with physical skills. The military uses it for the training of combat troops. It is used in sports because it is the only leadership style that produces winning teams.  Teenage gang leaders use it for training members in the art of crime. Teenagers join gangs because they have a natural desire to have goals and learn. With no alternatives, crime fulfills this desire while gaining social recognition among their peers.

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford were classroom rejects that used team learning tools to build a better world. The difference between gang members and these inventors, they were given opportunity to discover and develop their natural talents.

The Brain at Work

Two men appear to be doing the same amount of work with the same amount of energy. In reality, one man's energy slowly dies and efficiency fades away while the other is able to sustain high energy and maintain efficiency. What is the difference?

Authority Controlled

The brain is like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, lifeless, waiting for things to happen. There is no stimulus because all he does is follow orders. To keep his job he must appear to be working hard. Finding a better way is the boss's job. He accepts the status quo and no longer has a desire to excel.

Team Responsibility

The brain is like Peter Pan, searching for a better way. He is stimulated and full of energy, because what he does will be recognized, and will make a difference. It is his responsibility to make things happen. His social environment motivates him, which adds energy to the desire to excel.

 
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