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reading learning all the time by john holt

October 27th, 2008
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9/7/2008
Chris picked this book up the other day. As usual, I’ll post when I’ve gotten into it (or finished it) and when I have some time. For now though, this quote of Holt’s from the editor’s foreword caught my eye.
Learning, to me, means making more sense of the world around us, and being able to [...]

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why we homeschool: reason 3, what we don’t want our son to learn

May 20th, 2008
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There are plenty of reasons why we have chosen to homeschool our son, but there are also a bunch of specific reasons why we choose not to subject our son to state institutionalized education—things he would likely learn there that we prefer he not learn. Here’s a short list of things we don’t want our [...]

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why we homeschool: reason 2, keeping it natural

April 28th, 2008
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Today, class, we will be discussing Paulo Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education.” I will tell you what I know about this essay over the next hour or so, you will write it down, and then soon I will test you on what I know about this essay. We only have 60 minutes to talk [...]

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