Educating Our Children

April 6, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… True discipline is self-imposed. Continue reading →

March 26, 2018 – Kerry McDonald …… Creativity flourishes in freedom and shrivels with force. Continue reading →

February 12, 2018 – Peter Gray …… Schools will become moral institutions only when children are free to quit. Continue reading →

January 19, 2018 – Genevieve Simperingham …… However we treat our children, we are conditioning them to believe that this is what’s normal and acceptable in relationships. Our responses to our children can lift them up or put them down, empower or disempower them. We need to be very mindful of how we guide and lead them. Continue reading →

November 10, 2017 – Kerry McDonald …… To ask what a child wants to be when she grows up is to dismiss what she already is, what she already knows, what she already does. Our job is not to prepare our children for who they will become, but to help them be who they already are. Continue reading →

October 30, 2017 – Kerry McDonald …… In the absence of coercion and regimented time tables, a genuine love of literature can grow. Continue reading →

October 23, 2017 – Peter Gray …… Here are four powerful, innate drives that lead children to educate themselves. Continue reading →

September 18, 2017 – Isaac Morehouse …… The desire to learn must come first in order for genuine education to occur. Continue reading →

September 16, 2017 – Kerry McDonald …… “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” ……. Thomas Jefferson, 1816 Continue reading →