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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…
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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…
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Getting comfortable with nostalgic food and learning to enjoy the emotions embedded in traditional celebrations.
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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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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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