Peter Gray Ph.D. Freedom to Learn Academic skills are best learned when a person wants them and needs them. In my last post I summarized research indicating that early academic training produces long-term harm. Now, in this post, I will delve a bit into the question of how that might…
Category: All About Education
What’s it like to home educate your children?
Currently, 6,000 New Zealand kids are getting homeschooled, not including those enrolled at the correspondence school Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu. Educating a child at home can allow a parent to “light a fire in their hearts and minds” without pressure or competition, says Siobhan Porter, who has homeschooled all five…
GET THEM OUT!
Craig used to say this all the time. Infact we had a slogan printed out with just these words: Get them out! From Doug Wilson’s blog today INTRODUCTION: “H.L. Mencken suggested a shrewd educational reform that has somehow not caught on. He said that there was nothing wrong with our…
Govt Should Talk to Parents First regarding Sex Education
YOUR RIGHTS AS PARENTS Hi Barbara The Education Review Office (ERO) released a report yesterday about “sexuality education”. Once again, this latest government report raises way more concerns for parents than reassurances, and joins the queue of governmental and radical groups who want to indoctrinate your children with sexual…
Christians Urged to Pull Children From Public Schools
This following article was what Craig and I have been saying for many years now. We have stayed with Ray Moore in his home and followed the work of Exodus Mandate for many years: The warning was clear: Christian parents should pull their children out of public schools, now, to…