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Actress Angelina Jolie enrolls her children at the Lycee school.It may seem hard to believe, but even with all the fame and fortune life has brought, Angelina Jolie is still struggling to raise her kids like every other parent out there.
"I wish there was a book every parent could read that tells you how to navigate through the school system, and how to tailor the education system for your children and their interests," she said in an interview with The Independent.
Jolie's six kids ? Maddox, 10, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 5, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 2 ? are enrolled in the Lyc�e school, which has outposts in several countries around the world.
"But we have different teachers from different cultures in our house, who travel with us," she explained. "Not only nannies but teachers."
The purpose, the 35-year-old actress said, is "building a team around us where we can all be enhanced culturally and they can help with following a curriculum legally" because all the learning necessary to build well-rounded adults can't be found in a classroom.
"I do think we live in a different age and the education system hasn't caught up with our children and our way of life," Jolie said. "But we travel and I'm the first person to say, 'get the schoolwork done as quickly as possible because let's go out and explore.' I'd rather them go to a museum and learn to play guitar and read and pick a book they love.
"I feel that there's got to be a new way to tailor things more directly to our children," she continued. "Considering the amount of information we have today, the Internet and online books... we as parents need to think about how we can shake it up and make it better."
Despite the challenge of educating her large brood, it's her family life with partner Brad Pitt, 47, that brings her the happiness she uses as motivation for all the other responsibilities in her life.
"I don't know if I have found it," Jolie admitted when asked if she's "found peace." "But, especially when you have children, you wake up every morning and, if they are happy and they are healthy, then you have peace.
"You know that that's all that you should be worried about," she continued. "Then from there you work on all these other things that bother you and you try to fix injustices and the bigger issues in the world. But you kind of start from one simple thing to be grateful for."
If her children are the center of her life, it makes it especially easy to wonder if Jolie plans on having more ? a subject that seems to be a constant rumor.
"We're always open if it feels right, but we have a full house and, at the moment, nothing has become clear to us," Jolie said.
"It's the same, I suppose, as when somebody decides to get pregnant. There's just a moment where something becomes clear to you," she explained, "and, at the moment, that's not what we're discussing."
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