What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. The joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.
— Gregory Leigh Mallory
What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. The joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.
— Gregory Leigh Mallory
Quick read on unschoolers and college. I’m posting this because this seems to be one of the questions I get most often. Much more can be found in Peter Gray’s book, Free to Learn.
This article on a ten-year old math prodigy, Esther Okade, was shared with me recently. I loved it, but not for the “prodigy” reason. When the child showed great aptitude in math, her parents enrolled her in a private school. Her mom said, “One day we were coming back home and she burst out in tears…
This is a brilliant talk by Sir Ken Robinson on creativity and the need to foster children’s individual interests. “See our children for the hope they are.”