By Oliver & Rachel DeMille What dedicated parent hasn’t thought: “My kids deserve better than this…but this is all I know!” We often get so concerned with “what” to teach that we neglect the “how” and “why.” Yet these make all the difference between success [...]
by Oliver DeMille Mazes and Levels Most organizations start out with a great mission, then run into challenges and focus on survival, then want to grow and shift their focus to trying to impress the world. Eventually they become a roadblock to the very [...]
To anyone who ever has or ever will tell a bedtime story... By Sara DeMille* There once was a great Storyteller. The people of the land sought him out to hear his amazing stories of adventure, love, comedy, and daring. So great was his skill [...]
Stand Up! I read somewhere, I forget where, that the only people who ever get a truly great education are those who just plain stand up and demand one. They do this in spite of schools, bureaucracies, and the educational system—not because of these things. [...]
Discuss: How do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the 21st Century? How do we educate our children so that they have a sense of cultural identity? The problem is, we're trying to meet the future by doing what [...]
When you're right, you're right. Out of the mouths of babes...
By Oliver DeMille “How will math ever help me in real life?” Every math teacher and a lot of parents have heard this question—more than once! And what homeschooler hasn’t heard the familiar query: “But what about your kids’ social development?” A new question in [...]
By Oliver DeMille Three quotes really made me think this week. Here they are: 1. John Dewey said: “Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only what he is studying at the time.” He goes on to show [...]
by Oliver & Rachel DeMille We recently posted citing information from an article that raised serious concerns about the new Common Core Standards. And while the information we passed on from the article was technically "factual," on closer scrutiny, it was clearly designed to manipulate [...]
