March 29, 2006 – 11:21 am
According to Michael Pearl, the first step in child raising is to enjoy your children. Your “right” to discipline your children extends naturally from your love for them. He is almost right in that, and if these were secualr materials, I would not bring this up. In truth, as in all relationships, [...]
March 26, 2006 – 11:46 am
Oh, joy. Homeschoolblogger has been boycotted. I can’t decide what to think of this little escapade. Ambivalent is a good term…”characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes.” That is not me on most issues, but it is on this one.
It started with the murder of a child. The [...]
Sometimes I wish I had a PhD in something so I could just say stuff and people would listen to me. Or at least quote me.
Dr. Steven Reiss, for example, suggests that there really is no such thing as intrinsic motivation. This comes in response to the research coming out which suggests that [...]
It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
—Albert Einstein
In my first [...]
I stumbled across an interesting entry over on Edwahoo’s blog that brought up an issue worth consideration. Here I offer only further thought and reflection, no solutions.
The American Heritage Dictionary’s definition of motivation is essentially worthless. Who can make anything out of this:
mo·ti·va·tion
n.
1.
a. The act or process of motivating.
b. The [...]
I do not do this very often, but Spunky, who was so kind in her comment to me, has an excellent post you should read. It is better than anything I had considered writing about today.All of us struggle some with mixed motives in homeschooling. That is part of why I blog. [...]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute hosts an annual Holiday Lecture Series on Science. The topic for 2005 focused on evolution, and several Washington, D.C.-area high school students gathered after the lectures for a panel discussion with the speakers.
“I am a believing Christian who totally accepts evolutionary theory,” Father James A. Wiseman, the Benedictine monk and [...]
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