So you already said but if you could
change something in non-formal education or in trainings, what would it be?
I don't think I would change anything
inside it, but what I would like to change
is the recognition, that it would be taken
more serious, that would get real placing
in the community, that would have a clear
concept for people. Also that games is a
method and technique of learning, to take
it more serious, as an overall.
How many people have participated in
your trainings during your career? Do
you have any idea of the number?
I have never counted or thought about
that, but I think as a trainer in average,
minimum five hundred different people
a year, so that would make it ten thousand
and more.
Ok, last thing, one book you would
recommend to our readers.
Ok, it’s a very tiny book, I forgot the name,
but some people may know. It’s a book
from Sweden, it’s from Eric Ericsson, and
it’s not his real name but a fake name.
It’s a gathering of letters he writes to
companies asking incredible, ridiculous
questions and all the answers the companies
are giving back. It is absolutely hilarious,
I have laughed with it, because he is just a
pain in the ass.
It’s a tiny booklet. He would question the
unspoken, he would question the system
by sending all kind of annoying questions.
Absolutely good book, nothing with
education.
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So this means your work has a great
impact.
I have no clue, but this is also something
that in non-formal education it’s a personal
process so it has an impact. But on what,
that is very hard to follow. We don't do
tests, we don’t do evaluations, there is not
so much structure, yet I believe there is a
follow up, because it also depends on the
participants themselves if they want to get
engaged in the long term contacts, or long
term process. So if it has an impact?
I hope so!
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