Education inward the Family

Anyone who wants to beak over the educational implications of Beauty for Truth's Sake can right away produce too then at our give-and-take board nether EDUCATION. In connective with this you lot mightiness similar to read an article I wrote to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension agone inwards Communio called Towards a Distinctively Catholic School. But these ideas on teaching are non but for Catholics - too non but for schools too colleges. Parents are the chief educators of their children, too the abode is the natural identify for a revolution inwards education. If you lot wishing to hold out involved inwards the give-and-take with too with homeschoolers you lot tin flaming append a comment here, shipping me an email, or post something inwards the teaching forum.

Recently I besides became aware of a growing Catholic UNSCHOOLING campaign inspired yesteryear the function of John Holt. According to Suzie Andres, the writer of Homeschooling with Gentleness, "St. Thomas too Aristotle both clearly affirm the next iv educational principles: 1) teaching should hold out for the practiced of the learner; 2) all men yesteryear nature wishing to know; 3) the learner is the principal agent inwards learning; too 4) unlike learners are fitted to acquire unlike things at unlike times." These principles underpin the illustration for "unschooling", the "Little Way" of homeschooling every bit she calls it, which is based on trust - trust that a kid volition seek out too acquire what he or she needs to know, when he needs to know it, without coercion, without schoolhouse or school-type methods, inwards the liberty too security of his family. The component of parents is to facilitate this exploration of the world.

This won't function for to a greater extent than or less families too to a greater extent than or less children, but I tin flaming imagine it working for others. After all, every bailiwick is connected to every other, too i affair leads to the next. Give a kid a globe for Christmas, too it may Pb to an involvement inwards geography, or history, or astronomy. Start them on a musical instrument, too it mightiness opened upwardly up mathematics or history. Drawing a circle or triangle points to architecture or theology. In fact the principles of unschooling are real unopen inwards to a greater extent than or less ways to the sentiment of my book, which is all close interconnectedness too lifelong, self-motivated learning.

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