Schooling could use real intelligent design but it’s in short supply. We’ll have to learn this stuff about learning for ourselves imo. Maybe start with a little eye-opening homeschoolers’ field trip to “who kids really are” and why they aren’t interchangeable widgets? You can jump onboard NotJC’s “real ideas for real learning with real kids” express here.
Not June Cleaver Plays With “Girls Rule, Boys Drool” School
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- Date : February 4, 2008
- Categories : "This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World", Academics, Bullying and control, Change, Cognitive Psychology, Culture, Discipline-behavior, Early Childhood Issues, education, Environment, Ethics and Philosophy, Family Values, From the Mouths of Babes, Health, homeschooling, Human Networking, Identity, Institutions and Individuals, Nature-nurture, organizational behavior, Parent Involvement, Philosophy, Political Frames, Power of Story, Reason, Research and Science, school board issues, Socialization, Standardized Testing, Sustainable unschooling, Thinking Parents
Geez you make it sound like so much fun! 🙂
BTW, I love your category “This is School, Mr. Potter, Not the Real World.”
Hey, this IS fun to me, didn’t you notice yet? Otherwise why would I do it?? 🙂
NotJC, try typing that category into Snook’s search box or click on it for the wordpress-wide search (they’re all mine I think but it works great), and you’ll get a whole list of posts here to um, play with . . .
And btw, need I mention what a palpable difference that series established between Hermione as a student, and her two best boy-friends?!