‘ED NEWS & POLITICS’ Archives
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur: Part 2
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur Part 2 By John Taylor Gatto 3. What I learned from watching kids for thirty years is that it's almost impossible to know your true self without knowing deeply your parents' true selves at the same time. No one can really live easily without insight into our parents, and [...]
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur Part 1 By John Taylor Gatto I've cast about for some use this schoolteacher can be to an enterprise about education and found a way - I'm going to reflect on what kind of ground educational seeds grow best in, what needs to happen before an education does. True [...]
Meaningful Learning Starts with the Child, Not a Curriculum
Meaningful Learning Starts with the Child, Not a Curriculum By Linda Dobson Those of us who attended public school caught on pretty early that school was all about curriculum, or the list the teacher had containing all the tidbits of information she was to pass on to those children in her charge. As a child, I had such blind faith in the [...]
What If…
What If... By Linda Dobson What if we practiced the Golden Rule with children...all children? What if adults stopped trying to change each child's essence to make him fit into a quite confining mold of sameness as all others? What if our schools actually educated children, instead of programming them? What if we saved grading for eggs [...]
Skip College; 6 Ways to Build Your Own Post-High School Education
Skip College; 6 Ways to Build Your Own Post-High School Education By Linda Dobson Like so many aspects of public education today - standardized testing, lectures, age-separated classes, one-size-fits-all curriculum and more - the promise still perpetuated by politicians at all levels that going to college is going to be everyone's saving [...]
