[lit-ideas] Re: Organic Learning
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:47:33 EST
I am embarrassed to say I somehow missed Neill and Summerhill ..... probably
at the time I was more focused on potty training <g>. That's an
extraordinary link. I would like to know what the members of this list, the
literati,
think of this approach/philosophy of education. I pulled my 12 year old (have
I said this here already? apologies if so) out of public school in
September. It's been a struggle since she was in 3rd grade, but this fall was
an
absolute train wreck. Her self-esteem was pummeled to zero, and her
continuing
complaint was, "I'm not learning anything". My inclination, in sorting out
issues of home-schooling curriculum, designing lessons, etc., has been very
much like the below. It's a little hard to be comfortable with the notion of
no "set" study of various individual subjects, a la "Math: fractions &
decimals", etc. And yet my intuition says that something like the below is
how my
daughter learns best. She's a free spirit, that one. And she knows what
she wants.
Julie Krueger
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Julie wrote:
> [ââââââââââ] 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 Râs; 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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