3 stages of "scaling up": merger, differentiation and integration.

3 stages of "scaling up": merger, differentiation and integration.

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1️⃣ Merge

Perhaps you cannot imagine how else you can get an education if not in school. Or someone from your family cannot imagine how you can deprive a child of school, even if the very adult in school was very often ill. Yes, and friends tell you that you can learn only this way, and not otherwise. And in the family form of education, as you and your environment think, the child is deprived of socialization. If a person is in a merger with the system, then the exit from it is associated with fears and a dialogue with him about alternative forms of education is impossible. The idea that you can learn differently is received with hostility. Information about alternative ways of teaching is passed through a sieve of doubts and arguments are given only against, not noticing the opportunities that exist on SS, in contrast to the school.

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2️⃣ Differentiation

It is the process of separating from what you were merging with. You suddenly find it impossible to be inside a system that chokes you, interferes with your freedom of expression and decision-making. You begin to see the flaws of the system and look for alternative ways to get what you cannot get inside the system. You discover a ton of options that you can use to solve your problems. If we talk about the educational system, then you start looking for alternative ways to teach your children and find them based on the goals that you set for yourself as parents. At this point, you might get stuck if you start to fight the school system. This struggle takes up a lot of energy. As a result, you will turn family education into a school at home, reducing it to the same textbooks and curricula, rejoicing that the child is devoid of those "horrors" that you found in school and that you can avoid.

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