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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:54:04 +0000

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:02:14 +0000

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Ritalin: The Government Drug

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:05:55 +0000

Ritalin: The Government Drug

5-year-old chef starts Portland TV cooking show - Portland News | Oregon Local News - OregonLive.com

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:58:51 +0000

5-year-old chef starts Portland TV cooking show - Portland News | Oregon Local News - OregonLive.com:

“By age 3, Julian Kreusser was making “secret potions” out of food. He woke up early to scramble eggs while his parents slept. He invented “toasted olives” (green ones) for a neighborhood snack. For the record, they were a success.

At age 4, he saw a cooking show on Oregon Public Broadcasting and thought, “I should be doing that.”

He can’t reach the counter without a stool, and sometimes he has to ask his mom the name of an ingredient.

The blue-eyed blond is home-schooled, or rather, unschooled. That’s a brand of home schooling that has the kids direct their learning. If Julian wants to learn how trees grow, he does. If he wants to learn which ingredients make the best cake, he does.

“So everything I see, I can learn about,” Julian says.”

Diggers & Dreamers – The Guide to Communal Living in Britain

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:15:37 +0000

Diggers & Dreamers – The Guide to Communal Living in Britain

"We adults destroy most of the intellectual and creative capacity of children by the things we do to..."

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:56:27 +0000

“We adults destroy most of the intellectual and creative capacity of children by the things we do to them or make them do. We destroy this capacity above all by making them afraid”

- John Holt

Intersting quotes from interesting people!

BBC NEWS | UK | UK playwright Harold Pinter dies

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:16:48 +0000

BBC NEWS | UK | UK playwright Harold Pinter dies

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Thu, 25 Dec 2008 13:37:44 +0000

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Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:45:55 +0000

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"Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools..."

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:08:55 +0000

““Nothing enrages me more than when people criticize my criticism of school by telling me that schools are not just places to learn maths and spelling, they are places where children learn a vaguely defined thing called socialization. I know. I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.””

- Seymour Papert

"The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So..."

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:06:25 +0000

““The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.””

- John Updike

"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from..."

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:05:02 +0000

““My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.””

- George Bernard Shaw