Posts Tagged ‘The Art of Education: Reclaiming Your Family Community and Self’
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur: Part 3
The 4 Crucial Responsibilities to Accept Before Education Can Occur: Part 3 By John Gatto 5. If Good and Evil are the first responsibility that has to be accepted, the second is the necessity of work. I stress "necessity" because it is independent of personal wealth, cleverness, or genius. Education doesn't just happen, not even to the [...]
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 [...]
Easy Homeschooling Starting Points: Simply Supply the Materials
Easy Homeschooling Starting Points: Simply Supply the Materials By Linda Dobson When a carpenter builds, a seamstress sews, or an EMT rescues, day's end brings accomplishment she can see and touch. Not so with your child. After a day of family learning activities, your youngster is still the same size [...]
School Mind and Education Mind Are Two Different Things – Part 2 of 2
School Mind and Education Mind Are Two Different Things - Part 2 of 2 By Linda Dobson When we compare public school attendance to homeschooling, we tend to focus on the external and obvious differences. The differences, however, begin at a deeper level, strongly influenced by how we think about learning. This two-part post looks at [...]
Easy Homeschool Starting Points: Simply Be Quiet
Easy Homeschool Starting Points: Simply Be Quiet By Linda Dobson If you needed to wrestle with life's greatest problems right now, would you run to Grand Central Station to figure them out? Not likely. You would probably seek out a comfortable, quiet place where enough time and space exist to put your thoughts and feelings in order. Your [...]