"School is a prison--and damaging our kids" ~Peter Gray
"Most people assume that the basic design of schools, as we know them today, emerged from scientific evidence about how children learn best. But, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth...Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research into how children learn."
Yeah. It's no place to spend a childhood, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteWe have Tim who did not know the days of the week or months of the year. Didn't know a season from a holiday.
Where has he been??
He can construct anything from a diagram, builds stuff, loves to work on things.
Monday? What's that? When is it? How will I know when it is?
So we're working on it. He's got his list of the months, has to locate the date on the calendar every day, can identify the weekend, knows Christmas is in December now. (He did not know this.)
So how do people learn? Why do we catch on to some things out of thin air and need help with others?
It's all a big, fat mystery to me, even after all these years. love you, V
Val, that makes me laugh. The big joke in our homeschooling community is that none of these super smarty pants hip teenagers can tie their shoes. They spent their childhoods barefoot, reading. My son is more thoughtful than I am, he has read many more books than I have, he has a better command of language, and he is a way better speller. But I will tie my shoes faster than him every time. Thank you, institutional education!
ReplyDeleteOh shit, Lego diagrams lose me after about frame 5. We are all smart in so many different ways.
ReplyDeletelove,Val