If you were Headmaster of Hogwarts...

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 37022

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Michelle Strauss" <chynarose8 at h...> wrote:
And I am throwing in my two knuts. If I was the headmaster, and it were 
up to me to prepare Harry for the Final Battle, one of the first things 
to do is pull him from the general population. Once Harry has been 
academiclly isolated and insolated from such concerns as house rivalry, 
I'd start him on an intensive course load that would cover all areas of 
knowledge that he might need.
<snip extremelly intensive learning program>
Summer vacation, and Christmas break would be gone; the intensity of 
the program would allow for little free time. And because it's me, I'd 
toss in a bit of yoga/Eastern religion because I feel that he would 
need the disiplin of meditation and he could use the spritual boost.
> 
> But that's just me.
> @---<-- Chyna Rose
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This is spooky! Such a training would, form my point of view, render 
Harry totally useless. People (specially students) need time off: not 
just evenings off, but days off (1 or 2 a week), weeks off (one every 3 
or 4 months), and months off (2 or 3 every year). If you force any 11 
year old to study without friends (isolation) or competitors, and take 
away all possible fun, he will be reduced to a lunatic by the time he's 
18. This may seem a bit extreme, but the fact is that several studies 
have demonstrated that the efficiency at learning decreases 
exponencially from the last holiday, as children and adolescents 
(teenagers) become ever more weary of studying. The only way to combat 
it is giving them free time to play, and the occasional (extra) day 
off. I know this is true, I can feel how it grows increasingly 
difficult to pay attention in class and to concentrate as the weeks 
pass without free days.

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf