August 18, 2007 – 4:53 am
Thank you to all who voted for Principled Discovery Academy’s tagline. How would this look painted on our homeschool wall?
The security guards are a nice touch. After all, someone has to keep these hooligans under control. Ironically, the stereotype fits in its own way. After all, if I wanted my [...]
While I was living in Germany, one thing really stood out to me that I have never really experienced in the United States: the sense of community. There, when someone says “drop by anytime,” they mean it and will be insulted if you never show up. Here, we make superficial invitations, accept [...]
Thank you Frank Cerabino, staff writer for the Palm Beach Post. Interesting thoughts.
This is why there is home schooling. Home schooling is a wonderful form of school choice. It allows parents lots of elbow room to create parallel universes, worlds of their own making inside the comfort of their own homes, where there never [...]
An editorial in the Intelligencer (out of Canada) raises up the “disadvantages” of homeschooling based on the same stereotypes we hear everywhere else. It starts out all right, but quickly moves into the common stereotypes:
A significant example is the amount of time - not to mention money - it takes to prepare and [...]
Um, yeah. What she said.
Some time ago, I wrote a post on socialization I’ve been meaning to revisit. I began with a definition:
The process by which culture is learned; also called enculturation. During socialization, individuals internalize a culture’s social controls, along with values and norms about right and wrong.
This isn’t about playing [...]
Since the 1904 publication of Psychologist Stanley Hall’s work, Adolescence, American society has also increasingly believed that the teenage rebellion it saw breaking out in the wake of increased immigration was a natural expression of an undeveloped brain.
Teenage rebellion. The two words fit together so well, they are almost synonymous. But should they [...]
At the Y this evening, I could not but help noticing the clothing of a young man (about 9 or 10) playing pool in the foyer. On his dark blue T-shirt was printed in white letters, complete with the Lincoln Police Department uniform insignia,
“Stolen from the Lincoln Police Department.”
While this is the first time I [...]
This, I believe, originally came from The Link Homeschool Newsletter and is by John Taylor Gatto (I made a couple minor corrections to the text):
1) An educated person writes his own script through life, he is not a character in a government or corporate play, nor does he mouth the words of any intellectual’s Utopian [...]
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