Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 24th, 2007
South African Homeschoolers Victims of Bureaucracy
An example from South Africa of bureaucracy for Schools affecting homeschoolers.
A Wonderboom South home-schooling mother of six is taking on the Minister of Education and wants a court to rule that the revised national curriculum statement and its outcomes-based education is not legally binding.
Tina van Deventer, expecting her seventh child in November, the Beweging [...]
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Unschooling,
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unschooling is a form of education in which learning is based on the student’s interests, needs, and goals. It may be alternatively referred to as natural learning, child-led learning, discovery learning, delight-led learning, or child-directed learning.
Unschooling is generally considered to be a form of home education, which is simply the education [...]
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
12 new posts on Cool Stuff
GC ‘07: Don’t ignore casual gamers, says Age of Empires panel
Dc Previews For August 22nd
Tim Allen, Disney saddle up again
Eagles to release first studio album in 28 years
Weird Deep-Sea Creatures Found in Atlantic
and more…
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Germany “Officials” At It Again
Dear friends,
I wrote a short summary of our recent situation. Thank you for forwarding this to people who might be interested.
If the text needs any corrections please do not hesitate to inform us - we are greatful for this help. If you want further informations to write articles or something, [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Unschooling or Homeschooling?
What is the difference between unschooling and homeschooling? At one time they were just two terms for the same thing, so the question was like asking what the difference is between a car and an automobile. Today, homeschooling has remained a generic term while unschooling has come to refer to a specific type of homeschooling. [...]
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Scott Adams
‘Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep’.
Scott Adams
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
All the world’s a classroom
Iain Curley padded down the stairs about 10:45 p.m. one evening and asked Mom and Dad if he could read to them.
He was holding a book, "The Little Hen," his parents hadn’t picked up before. The 8-year-old, they thought, hated reading.
He had fallen behind his classmates, and his sweet personality was bruised by their teasing. [...]
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Neues Buch
"Schulfreie Bildung - Die Vernachlässigung schulfreier Bildungskonzepte in Deutschland":
Homeschol-Vater Jan Edel schreibt zu seinem soeben erschienenen neuen Buch: Ich setze mich darin für bildungspolitisches Umdenken und vor allem die Möglichkeit einer schulfreien Bildung hierzulande ein. Es geht mir allerdings nicht um die Abschaffung des mehrgliedrigen Schulsystems, sondern
um eine vielfältige Erweiterung desselben, auch eben durch komplett
schulfreie [...]
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Marcel Proust
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
