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The
Einstein Factor
Socialization: A Good Reason Not to Go to School. When Education Becomes Abuse Nobel Prize Winners Hate School The Founders of the U.S.A. Learned Without Public School How We Learn Alison Gopnick, author of The Scientist in the Crib The Right Way to Homeschool by Leslie Murgatroyd Einstein's Descendants Alphabet Soup - An example of how learning happens all the time and doesn't have to look like school. (This was an example that I sent to the A2Z Yahoo! Group about how learning happened at lunch.) A Good Day - Excerpt from my journal. A day where following my son's curiosities led us naturally through various topics. A Bad Day - Not all days are good. This day is what I describe as my "paragraph panic attack" and it helped me remember what is important. What I don't
remember -
Sometimes I wonder if I would be able to pass the test to receive a
general education diploma, though I have a college degree.
What do I remember?
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"Birds fly, fish swim, man
thinks and learns.Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into
learning
by wheedling, bribing or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away
at their
minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do, and all we
need to
do, is bring as much of the world as we can into the school and
classroom (in
our case, into their lives); give children as much help and guidance as
they
ask for; listen respectfully when they feel like talking; and then get
out of
the way. We can trust them to do the rest." John Holt
from How Children Learn
"What
children need is not new and better curricula but access to more and
more of the real world; plenty of time and space to think over their
experiences, and to use fantasy and play to make meaning out of them;
and advice, road maps, guidebooks, to make it easier for them to get
where they want to go (not where we think they ought to go), and to
find out what they want to find out." John Holt in Teach
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