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The construction site, the factory, the farm, the landing of a man on the moon, the 
earning of income in the family, - it all calls for organization. That organization can 
be sloppy or of high quality depending on the intellectual energy put into figuring 
out what the best way of organising will be for the endeavour at hand. 
 
However, school all over the world is generally organizing itself incredibly sloppy, 
and that can be seen from the fact that the way of organising is never changing, it is 
overly simple and un-attractive and demands not much more than taking your seat 
and keep quiet until asked. 
 
I remember very well that at the beginning of the year we received the week&rsquo;s 
schedule. Monday math, gymnastics, Danish, writing at this and that hour. Tuesday 
geography, history at this or that hour. The little piece of paper with the schedule 
showed the schedule of the teaching lessons all through the year. No month was 
different. No surprises to look forward to and be enthused about. 
 
1200 pupils were thus organised. Take your seat and listen to geography at this 
certain hour. Inside the classroom the organising was also once and for all. All 
tables were made for 2 pupils, placed facing the teacher and the teacher placed in 
the usual center place. These tables were almost never moved around. Never 
formed in a circle. Outside the school people are often found in groups, but inside 
the class never so. In recent decades the group organisation in the class has sneaked 
into the picture at some schools with some teachers, but not really organising 
systematically pupils and students in groups like we know it from DNS. 
 
And that is of course a great obstacle to learning. Imagine a primary school in class 
3. Still a number of pupils are not at all confident with the country&rsquo;s national 
language used in the school. How will the teacher secure that the pupils despite the 
language barrier walk out after class wiser than when they entered. How can one 
think that organising is not called for? 
 
Of course it is possible to think that. 
 
In human society we have many examples of organisation of people which has 
been created once and for all and seemingly not in need of new organisation, such 
as marriage, which one will be hard pressed to describe as a smart organisation as it 
is often failing and seldom is a success. So organisation in school or organisation of 
people in families are clearly and heavily influenced by Tradition. It takes extra 
effort to challenge backward traditions and for example introduce groups in the 
classroom as an important way of organising the learning situations. 
 
The task here is to consider the importance of organizing at school, including 
organizing the pupils, and the direct relation between the quality of learning and the 
quality of organisation in the school.

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