GMP has a new Education Editor, and he’s interested in your submissions.
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“Our task is to educate (our students’) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.”
-Sir Ken Robinson, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
Are we adequately preparing our boys and young men for their future, for our future? Many of them have no strong male role models to pattern themselves after, not those men who see educating our youth as a priority rather than an elective. Are we failing our boys and young men in that respect? How can we draw attention to the deficits in our educational systems, to the need for more and stronger mentors in providing unwavering and unflagging support to see that they receive the benefits of an outstanding education? And not just education in a classroom, but properly educating them in the ways of becoming Good Men, providing resources and information that they will be able to utilize their entire lives.
THE GOOD MEN PROJECT wants to hear from you on matters of educating our youth, on ways in which your own education succeeded or failed, where we can reinforce the need for stronger educational tools and resources, and in the best practices of guiding boys and young men to greater success as men, and as humans.
How are other cultures’ education systems different from ours here in the U.S.? What’s your experience in private vs. public education? Are we adequately preparing our children for current society? Is the “industrialized education” system working? How can we better our own educational system to more competently help our young? How does the current system create success or failure in our young men and boys? How does homeschooling benefit our children? Does the current atmosphere of censorship in classroom texts work?
There are hundreds of questions to be answered and explored, and THE GOOD MEN PROJECT is fostering that conversation in our EDUCATION section.
Send your article ideas, rough drafts, or pristinely edited contributions to Education Editor Christian M. Lyons at:
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Christian M. Lyons is an award-winning writer, editor, coach, mentor, and educator. He is dual-natured, in that he’s exceptionally creative and strongly analytical. He resides in Colorado with his hilariously goofy dogs, likes truly compelling stories, authentic conversations, rooting for the underdog, and M&Ms.
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Mentors are good and all but I think we should go further than that. Male teachers need to be recruited and accepted into the elementary school level and in early childhood education. There is a deficit of male teachers that male students can look up to in the early years of their education and you should NOT be coy about pointing that out with the use of “mentors.” Of course, mentorship and teaching are not mutually exclusive so a teacher can in fact be a mentor, but I did not glean from this article that you were using the word… Read more »
Thank you for your comment. I suppose the concepts of “mentor” and “teacher” are synonymous in my mind, and in experience. But yes, it was not clearly delineated in this article. A case of “what I was thinking didn’t make it on to the page” syndrome. 🙂