“Kids don’t resist learning; they resist teaching.” John Taylor Gatto
Tag: learning
Self-discovered, self-appropriated learning
It 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…
St. Augustine
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. – St. Augustine
Exemption – assessment
Tags: HOW TO GET AN EXEMPTION FROM SCHOOL IN NEW ZEALAND Question: I have received a letter back from the MOE saying; “Please add to the sections on assessment, including your plans to set learning goals for………… and the evaluation of these goals over time in a planning and review…
Read It and Weep
The many negative aspects of public schooling are well reported in the daily papers. Schools were also becoming seriously affected by social problems becoming in the worst cases mere baby-sitting services. Do you want your children to go to a school where social problems rule the programmes? –Massey University vice-chancellor…