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6 09, 2012

What of Poetry?

TG writes: I listened to the recent webinar and was pretty energized by it. What I found enlightening was how Music was placed at the highest level of education. It makes sense; so many of us strive to include more music of all kinds in [...]

14 05, 2012

TJEd and the “French Way”

A book review of Druckerman's Bringing up Bébé Many people around the world are discovering principles of great education that those using TJEd are already applying. The "conveyor belt" approach to learning has two big competitors in this second decade of the twenty-first century. I [...]

20 01, 2012

Family Success 101

The Power of the FEC!
 by Oliver and Rachel DeMille Some of the most important parts of Thomas Jefferson Education include: The three types of education (conveyor-belt education, professional training, and leadership education) The Phases of Learning
 The 7 Keys of Great Teaching The 5 [...]

14 01, 2012

In Context: A Commentary on Scholarship

I once read an article by two religious scholars who were very concerned about the qualified and credible scholarship of an individual with what they considered to be a competing religious worldview. It was intriguing to consider the controversy from the point of view of [...]

14 12, 2011

Home School Insights: Unschooling Rules (Book Review)

“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.”

16 11, 2011

Home School Insights: The Unschooling Myth

Many people in our modern world have come to equate conveyor-belt methods and systems with schooling, and they tend to see anything else as lenient or non-academic. TJEd is different than the conveyor belt model, but it is not academically lax for children.

12 11, 2011

Home School Insights: On Entropy, and Allegiance

I have been thinking about the great forces of the universe. One is a creative force, and one, a destructive one. It seems that in the state of nature these forces almost balance. Sort of the “circle of life” scenario, where all things have their [...]

9 11, 2011

Home School Insights: Metaphor, Education and Freedom

Note that thinking in metaphor naturally includes literal thinking, but not vice versa. As a society understands metaphor, it understands politics. This is a truism worth chiseling into marble. When the upper class understands metaphor while the masses require literality, freedom declines.

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