Category: Education
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How to pop the education bubble
1. Soul-making and the education bubble One of my biggest pet peeves is the reduction of education to an economic transaction—to the gaining of marketable skills in exchange for fees. That’s all wrong. […]
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Report about the boys, April 2015
First, H., age 8. The trouble now is that H. is now mostly “unschooled,” not by choice but by necessity. While Mama is now taking on a lot more homeschooling responsibilities, especially now […]
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How to introduce your young child to Greek mythology
My Greek mythology-obsessed 3-year-old remarked as he splashed in his bath: “It’s as fierce as Poseidon’s waves!” Here he is reading from Mary Pope Osborne’s version of The Odyssey a few months ago: Some […]
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How to end Western civilization
[A video version of this post is at the bottom of the page.] I was reading Climbing Parnassus, a book-length defense of learning Greek and Latin, and it goes into historical depth about […]
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Reasons We Do Not Have for Homeschooling, and a Reason We Do
Here are several reasons we do not have for homeschooling: • We are religious “nuts” who want to shield our children from the theory of evolution, etc.? Nope. I’m a nonbelieving rationalist. • We […]
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The opportunity costs of progressive education
I have created a video version of this post! There is a surfeit of great ideas in education. They are “great ideas” for various reasons: children will learn a lot; they’ll […]
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Report on the boys (March 2014)
It’s been a long time since I updated blog readers about H. & E. Once again I start this with a resolution to keep this short. Ha ha. First, H., is now 7 years old […]
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Please read: my challenge to kindergarten and first grade teachers
Dear Teachers(and those who support teachers, please listen in), I will buy your class $100 worth of books, and donate whatever anyone else pledges below (more on that in a bit), if you […]
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Update about the boys, April 2013
In the past I’ve given mammoth updates about the boys, because I do enjoy writing such updates; but I really can’t afford the time now. Still, I will take a little time and […]
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Ask DadDude: spawning analytical thinkers
Someone emailed me this question. Since it was asked so nicely, I thought I’d answer. I have a question for you and I hope you have time to reply to it. I admire […]