You don't know??? “You don’t know?” Meri asked me in shock. “You don’t know?” The incredulous look on her face made me laugh. “Daddy -- you don’t know?” she repeated for the third time. Then she cocked her head in a way only a 9-year-old [...]
By Oliver DeMille Chess, Robert Jordan, and Theoretical Microdynamics It was a brand new freshman class and the first order of business was to help them learn the language of the classics. Most freshmen don’t come with this skill. They know technology very well, [...]
Q: I really have liked your Thomas Jefferson Education book and want to use it with my children, but I have a husband that does not believe that public schools are bad and is not supportive of me home schooling my children; nor [...]
And: The Angels in My Life By Dian Thomas Recently I was talking to a friend, Marsha Warner, who has been a real support to coach me to get my house organized. There are those times in our lives when we have to stop [...]
Click here to read Part 1 >> The Homeschool Okay, you never wrote back re: homeschool, but upon re-reading your question I realized ;-) that I probably DID do a lot of saying what was on my heart, and not what you asked for. So, [...]
by Arianne Cope If you think in seasons, plant cereals. If you think in decades, plant trees. If you think in centuries, educate your children. -Chinese Proverb Happy Birthday to my five year old. You are shedding your preschool self and stepping into boyhood. This [...]
This week I was reminded of “the best math curriculum.” In fact, there were three reminders, and when the third one came it finally made me pause and take notice.
“Each child has a spark of genius waiting to be discovered, ignited, and fed. And the goal of schools shouldn’t be to manufacture ‘productive citizens’ to fill some corporate cubicle; it should be to inspire each child to find a ‘calling’ that will change the world. The jobs for the future are no longer Manager, Director, or Analyst, but Entrepreneur, Creator, and even Revolutionary.”
Allan Bloom wrote in The Closing of the American Mind: “People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together. Hardly any homes have any intellectual life whatsoever, let alone one that informs the vital interests of life. Educational TV marks the [...]
The secret of any great education is love of learning. Note that the phrase here is love of “learning,” not love of “schooling,” or love of “education.” Learning should be the focus of schools and education, but this is not always the case. Many schools [...]
