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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The following links provide information about Home Schooling worldwide from Andrea Hermitt. This includes recent statistics for Home Schooling on all continents.
Homeschooling around the World: Australia & New Zealand
http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/homeschooling-around-the-world-australia-amp-new-zealand
Homeschooling around the World: Europe
http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/homeschooling-around-the-world-europe
Homeschooling Around the World: African & Asia
http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/homeschooling-around-the-world-african-amp-asia
Homeschooling around the World: USA
http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/category/650
Homeschooling around the World: The Americas
http://homeschooling.families.com/blog/homeschooling-around-the-world-the-americas
The information on the [...]
Joe Bennett Unleashed
Saturday, June 21st, 2008
From:
http://www.starstuddedsuperstep.com/2008/06/joe-bennett-unleashed.html
A brilliant excerpt from an interview with Joe Bennett, aptly entitled, “Joe Bennett Unleashed” - written up by Zoe George, and found in the April/May 2008 edition of the Canterbury Today business magazine.
Child abuse is a topic of great discussion among New Zealanders, particularly in the wake of Sue Bradford’s controversial anti-smacking bill getting the [...]
Trevelyan
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008Education…has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. - Trevelyan
Dr Raymond Moore, Home Grown Kids (1981)
Saturday, June 7th, 2008In general the best teacher or care-giver cannot match a parent of even ordinary education and experience. - Dr Raymond Moore, Home Grown Kids (1981)
John Holt
Thursday, June 5th, 2008How much people can learn at any moment depends on how they feel at that moment about the task and their ability to do the task. When we feel powerful and competent, we leap at difficult tasks. The difficulty does not discourage us; we think:Sooner or later, I’m going to get this. At other times [...]
Creative mood
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had loneliness and they knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work. - Carl Sandburg
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory…
Sunday, June 1st, 2008An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t. - Anatole France
Self-discovered, self-appropriated learning
Thursday, May 29th, 2008It seems to me that anything that can be taught to another is relatively inconsequential, and has little or no significant influence on behavior. I realise increasingly that I am only interested in learnings which significantly influence behavior. I have come to feel that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered, self-appropriated learning. [...]
Prof. Benjamin Bloom, father of OBE (Outcome Based Education)
Monday, May 26th, 2008The purpose of education and the schools is to change the thoughts, feelings and actions of students. - Prof. Benjamin Bloom, father of OBE (Outcome Based Education)
Mark Twain
Friday, May 23rd, 2008I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
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