"Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They’re basically little scientists. If we don’t stop that process, it will continue." ~ Grace Llewellyn
Kindergarten is a German word meaning "Children’s Garden"
"The research is clear. Academic training in kindergarten has no long-term benefit. In fact, it may cause long-term harm. It does not reduce the education gap between the rich and the poor, which is the usual reason offered for such training."
[TEDxTucson George Land The Failure Of Success]
In a sensational interview with the TEDxTuscon channel, Dr. George Land told the audience about the shocking results of the creativity tests that he and his team were developing as part of a special NASA project. The task of the team of psychologists was to develop a test that allows to evaluate and measure the creative potential of preschoolers. The result shocked not only customers at NASA, but also the psychologists themselves.
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“I foolishly thought I could sneak art and play in, but I was wrong,” wrote another disillusioned educator. “The Curriculum Cops showed up in the class I was doing my student teaching in, and that was the beginning of the end for me. Now I just sub and sneak in fun for the kids whenever I can.”
"The explicit goal of Child Care has been to weaken the power and freedom of the family. The premise has been the same the whole time: to exert social control over the groups in society who are, at any point in time, seen as a threat against social order." ~ Tove Stang-Dahl [Norwegian Professor]
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Basically parents are playing a game of Hunger Games or even worse Squid Game with their family! The only thing parents really have to do consistently is sleep with their children in the same house.
"You can either be a great career woman or a great mother. You cannot possibly be both." -Kevin Samuels
"No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large par…
"Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now." ~ David Elkind, [American child psychologist and author]
"Today families are caught in a paradox. We’re parenting during a time when scientists increasingly tell us free play is vital to the health of our kids, yet schools and policies are pushing us in the opposite direction— in an agitated rush toward early academics. The gap between what we know about young children and what we do with young children…
“If we’re not forced to conform to standard timetables for success, we can—and will—bloom on our own schedules. And we can do it with a deeper sense of mission and a greater feeling of contentment.” ~ Rich Karlgaard
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"Like the streetcar and horse-and-buggy, institutional schooling will become a cultural relic, a quaint reminder of yesteryear."
Today’s Schools Are Yesterday’s Streetcars: How Technology Will Transform Education
"I believe this is true and think it would be a huge leap forward, but I see one roadblock to it happening quickly.*
The problem is that institutionalized schooling for kids in 2019 is mainly just a daycare. Until we can resolve the need for parents to have others watch their kids a…
Most “education” companies are scams that know that homeschooling is Controlled Opposition so it makes sense that they play both sides, schooling & homeschooling, thinking most parents will be too dumb to realize, it’s called Hegelian Dialectic .
"The child himself is the curriculum." ~ Rudolf Steiner
Homeschooling is bringing school home. Your home becomes the classroom, you become the teacher, and your kids follow whatever curriculum you force feed them instead of giving them the freedom to…
