By Grace Llewellyn
An expected 700,000 American kids at the moment are taught at domestic. This e-book tells youth easy methods to take regulate in their lives and get a "real life." adolescents can reclaim their normal skill to coach themselves and layout a personalised schooling application. Grace Llewellyn explains the total strategy, from making the choice to give up university, to learning the educational possibilities on hand.
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Although I hadn't upbraided our students on that particular evening, I had certainly done so countless other times, for similar and sometimes less justifiable reasons. I called Holt's writings up in my mind and admitted to myself that he was right—school was a bad place, a controlling place, and I wasn't going to change anything by being there. I could see that some of my students were fed up with school, but I knew they had no clue as to other possibilities. And so the seeds of this book sprouted in my brain.
Beyond the love and pursuit of something specific, there's another quality you might also call love of learning. It's simple curiosity, which kills more tired assumptions than cats. Some people move around with their ears and eyes perked open like raccoons, ready to find out something new and like it. Do everything you can to cultivate this characteristic; it will enliven your life immeasurably. However, curiosity is another stubborn quality that thrives on freedom; therefore, school squishes it.
In families where adults read to children and read in front of children, leave all kinds of books around for children to look at, and answer their children's questions about reading, people learn to read with the same pleasure and confidence that accompanies their acquisition of speech. In general, people learn and grow as long as they are not prevented from doing so. School won't answer the door when real chances to learn come knocking. There's nothing wrong with planning and setting goals—they help us to accomplish big things like writing books or pulling off a bike trip across Turkey.