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Jan 27 2009

Play: an Ordinary Function

play [is] that most ordinary of human functions, as natural as crawling, walking and running. Without instruction, these skills flourish. No one is taught to walk – or to act out a fantasy. The patterns and incentives arise from within. -Vivian Gussin Paley, from The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter: the Uses of Storytelling […]

Written by Nicole · Categorized: Unschooling Thought for the Day

Jan 24 2009

Holt: Too Many Words

Our teaching is too full of words, and they come too soon. -John Holt, from How Children Fail

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Jan 21 2009

Thomas Edison at the Foot of the Class

I remember that I was never able to get along at school. I was at the foot of the class. -Thomas Edison

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Jan 17 2009

Paley: Schools Should Look More Like Families

The ultimate fear and loss [for a child] is separation…aside from all else we try to accomplish, we have an awesome responsibility. We must become aware of the essential loneliness of each child. Our classrooms, at all levels, must look more like happy families and secure homes, the kind in which all family members can […]

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Jan 10 2009

Dr. Markham: Anger as Defense

Anger is always a defense. It shields us from feeling vulnerable. To dissolve anger, look at the hurt or fear under it. -Dr. Laura Markham, from Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

Written by Nicole · Categorized: Unschooling Thought for the Day

Jan 10 2009

Rewards, Punishments and Relationships

Both rewards and punishments induce a behavior pattern whereby we try to impress and curry favor with the person who hands them out.  Whether we are looking to secure a reward or avoid a punishment is almost beside the point.  Either way, what we don’t have is the sort of relationship that is defined by […]

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Jan 03 2009

Sugata Mitra: Self-organizing System

A self-organizing system is one where a structure appears without explicit intervention from the outside. Self-organizing systems also always show emergence, which is that the system starts to do things, which it was never designed for…education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon. – Sugata Mitra, from the TED talk The Child-Driven […]

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