Working with your hands Sculpting Woodwork Plumbing Sailing, Running a boat Study Skills Taking notes Organizing notes Learning Methods (the skill of knowing your styles of learning and knowing other styles so you can present information effectively) Brain Styles Nancy Snyderman's "Brain Game" Rob Becker's presentation "Defending The Caveman" Gregorc Styles search: concrete abstract random sequential (step by step) Howard Gardner Jung's Personality Types KnowYourType.com Domestic skills (how to keep a home) Sweeping How long is food safe to keep? Organizing How many particles of skin fall to the ground in a typical house? Gardening Computer Skills Can you create a website? Can you develop and edit a wiki article? Can you use Skype? Can you use OpenOffice.org and Gimp and other p? Social Skills Motivational Skills Ability to manage your emotions What do these experts recommend? A. Robbins, Z. Zigler, Physical Skills (athletic endurance) What is the right level of physical exertion that you What are your limits? Free Agent Skills See Dan Pink, Free Agent Nation a) Marketing Skills b) Organizational Skills c) People Skills (telephone, communication, cold-calling) Take the Free Agent Self-Assessment | Structure of website for curriculum  Skills that Alumni remember of the John Corlette method Delayed gratification, a little hardship, soup lunch, whole wheat bread, blood oranges, planned deprivation, small towels (less laundry), cool showers, challenging corrosive cultural norms, at least two weekends a year in the mountains (preferably in the rain or with cold fingertips),sitting in silence after listening to an old person talk about something that is important to him, eating with people that I normally wouldn't choose to eat with, pretending to listen to an old guy trying to make small talk with teenagers. ...whatsoever things are Aiglon... Tough love. Rugby scrimmages designed to thicken our skins. The sharp and alarming report of Tony Hyde's voice that turned mischief into mush in a heartbeat. The look of astonishment with a soupc,on of encouragement when a physics concept wasn’t immediately grasped. The AIGLON ALUMNI NETWORK (unofficial) is growing. You can find more information at http://www.freeenglishlessons.com/and click on the RIGHT side on AIGLON ALUMNI NETWORK == to participate, send the address of your nearest pub or cafe to AiglonReunion@gmail.com or stevecongeralpina@gmail.com and I'll add your pub to the "Alumni Cafe" list... if a traveling alumnus is in your town, he can click on the link and find a pub where you two can meet for coffee and talk about the school and old times in each of your lives. The Network is promoted by John Vornle, who first had the idea more than 30 years ago. There are CATEGORY, ALPHABETICAL and GEOGRAPHICAL listings. ========= I remember meditation starting off. It always seemed like a good time to catch up on lost sleep... But even now I find I require half an hour of quiet time every morning to plan my day and get my brain organised. Coffee is also required at that time, but I do think that the basic principle is the same. The Aiglon web site states that: ...The intention [of Meditation] is to provoke students by creating an appropriate atmosphere and then using the talk to "drop a single idea into the silence" for students to reflect on. ... The Meditation period is certainly a core piece of the Aiglon experience. There is something fundamental about looking inside before proceeding outside. I was always enthralled by the "whirring" and "intensity" of some of the silences... I was always too busy to listen to the silence. Do you remember how long those silences were when you finally plucked up the courage to give your own meditation? I can't even remember what I said... Can you? =============== Tough love. Rugby scrimmages designed to thicken our skins. Brutal session of impromptu karate on the Alpina field which miraculously landed no one in the hospital to my memory. The sharp and alarming report of Tony Hyde's voice that turned mischief into mush in a heartbeat, and his look of astonishment when a physics concept wasn’t immediately grasped, yet always with a twinkle of amusement and discernible hope that we would prevail. -- Scott Swerdlin I heard that TODAY students routinely leave school and visit home during the term. Some students just travel around the country. I don’t recall that happening when I went to Aiglon in 1973-76. I recall that we were on expeditions or on the campus during the weekend, building relationships, working on clubs, enhancing the social life with our participation. Maybe I’m old fashioned, but the purpose of the school was to create “absences so the hearts can grow fonder” and that meant a bit of homesickness. If a student is not on campus, then the school community is poorer for the lack of that person. Just attending Sat. Night Dance was part of the culture-making. (FULL DISCLOSURE: the school was nice about letting my dad take me out of school for 14 days or so so I could attend a conference in Nairobi in 1974. What an opportunity to meet Maurice Strong and see the Environmental Programme get started. I missed mid-term exams, but the school made allowances -- I'm sure there are times and necessities that make it possible for students to get off campus, but they should be rare so as to build a campus "atmosphere" on the weekend). My daughter went to Sherborne Girls School in Dorset. The longest she ever had to stay at school was 3 weeks at the start of the Autumn term. Every other weekend the school was actually closed. She also had a mobile phone and called home most evenings. So homesickness was never a real issue like it was for us. Being able to educate the mind and the body at the same time. Allowing one to feel that anyone can be or become a leader. Making all the students feel equal regardless of who the parents where. -- Bahman Azarm 1. Wednesday night and being a gentleman to the ladies.... walking the invited student back to her dorm. 2. A sense of community on weekends (when we created activities like Saturday Night Dance) 3. Eating in dining rooms with staff members (I remember Mr. Hyde talking about grand issues during lunch). 1. The view. I still think it's the best view of the Alps anywhere! 2. The opportnities we had to learn things not of an academic nature (eg pottery, music, sewing.). 3.The education we got didn't suck either -- Fuffy King |