(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Angelina Jolie thinks visiting museums and learning musical instruments is more important than traditional school work.
The actress and her partner Brad Pitt raise six kids together, Maddox, nine, Pax, seven, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Due to the couples' jobs they are constantly travelling which means the children have studied at schools in several different countries. They also have various tutors who work with the youngsters, including one who speaks Vietnamese to Pax the child is from the country and one with an African background. Angelina thinks it's important to expose her kids to many different cultures and allow them to learn about the things they like.
"To us it's about building a team around us where we can all be enhanced culturally and they can help with following a curriculum legally," she told British newspaper The Independent.
"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. 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 a book they love. I feel that there's got to be a new way to tailor things more directly to our children. 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."
The family enjoy visiting other countries and looking around them together. They like camping and going on safaris and are planning to spend time in China and South America in the near future.
Angelina believes in living in the moment, which is sometimes hard for Brad. She never stops moving when they are away, meaning it's always up to him to take the family photos.
"I never take pictures and that drives Brad a bit crazy because he's not on any family photos as he always takes them," she laughed. "I often see all these people taking pictures to capture the moment and I think you miss the moment because you are trying too hard to capture it. I want to live it."
The 35-year-old says motherhood has brought her a kind of peace. She enjoys sharing things with her children, so brought them all to see her new animated movie Kung Fu Panda 2. They loved it, and she was straight on the phone to Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg to tell him. "I said, We're good. This gauge range is two to nine. It's working!'" she laughed. (C) Cover Media