Proofreading hope
A few weeks ago I found Pat Farenga’s blog and read through a few of his most recent posts. Pat worked closely with John Holt at Growing Without Schooling, the newsletter Continue Reading →
Tag Archives: education
Strategies
Recently I was playing a board game with four elementary-school-aged kids each teamed with their volunteer Big Brother or Big Sister. I noticed at each turn that three of the Continue Reading →
Choice words
“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose Continue Reading →
100 years from now
A child’s education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. This quote comes up for me each time I’m thinking about my Continue Reading →
Working backwards
“I wouldn’t have any idea what to teach without a curriculum.” A friend made this comment after I explained that, as unschoolers, we didn’t use a curriculum with our kids. Continue Reading →
Unschooling: learning naturally
“… the human animal is a learning animal; we like to learn; we are good at it; we don’t need to be shown how or made to do it. What Continue Reading →