“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat…” -from the old nursery rhyme and carol
“Christmas is filled with the very best kinds of learning: Caring, giving, sharing, togetherness, love… And the learning isn’t just limited to the youngsters; if we keep our hearts open this season we’ll learn new ways of celebrating, if we pay [...]
Of all possible homeschooling resources – after, of course, such pipe-dream unobtainables as unlimited time and money – next-best is a library card. Kids vary certainly, but there’s no doubt, as Neil Postman said, that a magnificent education can be obtained solely through reading; and even for the reading-resistant, the library has a lot to [...]
A couple of weeks ago we wrote about Linda Dobson’s new web site, Parent at the Helm, and shared her primary question for parents:
“Will the majority of your time and energy go elsewhere in the hope that a giant institution is giving your child the best, one-shot at education s/he can get? Or can you [...]
Why don’t we get the best out of people? In this TED video presentation Sir Ken Robinson argues that it’s because we’ve been educated to become good workers, rather than creative thinkers. “We are educating people out of their creativity,” Robinson says. It’s a message with deep resonance.
