Slow education

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Slow education is based upon Socratic, adaptive and non-standards based approaches to teaching. Slow education is in part a reaction to the overly compacted course content requirements teachers are experiencing from nationalized curricula worldwide, which many educators find students cannot cover in a single year with sufficient depth.{{Cite news|title=Why pushy parents fail to make the grade in education: Tiger Mums hold children back, says the Eton master behind a 'slow' approach to learning|first=Peter|last=Stanford|date=25 October 2012|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/9630771/Why-pushy-parents-fail-to-make-the-grade-in-education.html|accessdate=1 April 2014}} Slow education is also a reaction to the proliferation of standardized testing, favoring instead qualitative measures of student and teacher success.{{Cite news|title=Find the time for slow education|work=Times Educational Supplement|date=2 November 2012|first=Irena|last=Barker|url=http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6298869|accessdate=1 April 2014}} Slow education is frequently a feature in free, democratic and home schools.{{Cite book|title=Educating for Wisdom and Compassion: Creating Conditions for Timeless Learning|first=John P.|last=Miller|page=108|publisher=Corwin|location=Thousand Oaks|year=2005|isbn=9781412917049}} However, it can be a significant element in any classroom, including those in college preparatory and rigorous environments. The term "slow education" was derived from the distinction between slow food and fast food or junk food, and is an effort to associate quality, culture, sustainability, and personalization with quality schooling.{{Cite journal|title=It's Time to Start the Slow School Movement|first=Maurice|last=Holt|journal=Phi Delta Kappan|date=December 2002|volume=84|issue=4|pages=264–271|doi=10.1177/003172170208400404|s2cid=143892869|url=http://www.bluegum.act.edu.au/links/Maurice_Holt_Slow_Schools.pdf|accessdate=1 April 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150122061602/http://www.bluegum.act.edu.au/links/Maurice_Holt_Slow_Schools.pdf|archivedate=22 January 2015}}{{Cite book|chapter=Australian University Leaders: Agents of the McUniversity, Entrepreneurial Transformers, or Bureaucrats?|first=Deanna|last=de Zilwa|page=162|title=Global Issues in Higher Education|editor-first=Pamela B.|editor-last=Richard|year=2007|publisher=Nova Science|location=New York|isbn=978-1-60021-802-6}}{{Cite journal|title=Slow Higher Education|first=Hendrik|last=van der Sluis|journal=New Vistas|date=April 2020|volume=6|issue=1|pages=4–9|doi=10.36828/newvistas.105|doi-access=free}}