[lit-ideas] Re: Organic Learning
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:34:20 -0800
Julie wrote:
[…………………………] Is anyone familiar with this
program/entity/approach?
Remember A. S. Neill, and Summerhill?
'Parents are slow in realising how unimportant the learning side of
school is. Children, like adults, learn what they want to learn. All the
prize-giving and marks and exams side-track proper personality
development. Only pedants claim that learning from books is education.
Books are the least important apparatus in a school. All that any child
needs is the three R’s; the rest should be tools and clay and sports and
theatre and paint and freedom.
'Most of the schoolwork that adolescents do is simply a waste of time,
of energy, of patience. It robs youth of its right to play and play and
play; it puts old heads on young shoulders.'
http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/pages/school_policies.html
Robert Paul
Reed College
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