Marti Maguire, staff writer for The News&Observer, shares an interview with a homeschooling mother of two. The interview is a positive portrayal of homeschooling, but one of the questions left me wondering a bit about how much we are conditioned to think in public school terms.
What motivates your children to work without being graded?
Going [...]
Kareem Elnahal, in his valedictory speech, touches on the heart of the problem with American public education and our culture as a whole. He asks, “What is education?” and what meaning can it have if it does not attempt to tackle the problems central to each of us.
What is the right way to live? [...]
According to Carole Adams of the Foundation for American Christian Education, in her article, The Christian Idea of the Child, the first spiritual need of the child is significance.
Significance: Children need to have a deep sense of safety, of feeling loved, cherished, and significant.
Christ gave great significance to the postion of the child. [...]
In my ongoing series on motivation, I have been examining the eight spiritual needs of the child as laid out by Carole Adams in, The Christian Idea of the Child. The third idea she lays out is that of acceptance:
Children must acquire an adequate self-value, based upon their acceptance of their own individuality as [...]
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 [...]
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