Until the new year, I'll be taking a writing sabbatical to refocus on the more immediate and less theoretical aspects of life.
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Children thrive when we move beyond adultism and coercion, and respect them as fully functioning members of society. Education is a good place to begin…
Perhaps the most basic assumption our society makes about education is that learning is difficult and that it can and should be produced in children…
Getting comfortable with nostalgic food and learning to enjoy the emotions embedded in traditional celebrations.
Providing children with respect, self-direction, and the opportunity to learn from life, in spite of the way we were parented.
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“We can think of ourselves not as teachers but as gardeners. A gardener does not ‘grow’ flowers; he tries to give them what he thinks they need and they…
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About this newsletter and its author
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Children learn all the time, in school or out. And, unlike the memorization that often characterizes school-type "learning," learning that results from…
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