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Some Principles of Education for People Who Don’t Want Education to Drain their Children Dry

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Everyone who learns a little bit about educational history in the U.S. learns about John Dewey.  His published ideas, which would seem commonplace and hardly revolutionary today, caused a change in the system of education throughout American public schools which seemed at the time quite momentous. Ordinary people noticed it and referred to “the new schools.” I get these things from reading old books. A few points about all this before moving on. We are still living with Dewey. I dare say that my own essay, below, will be accidentally… Read more Some Principles of Education for People Who Don’t Want Education to Drain their Children Dry →

How We Learn How To Write

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Even though my own education was self-directed and patchy, I do have very pretty ideas about how people learn to write.  I am presently taking a distance writing class and I had a course or two at college. What I find is that those kinds of sources have a limited but very important function. Their limitation is that they will give you fairly generalized instruction, but the benefit is that someone is going to see what you write and point out exactly where you deviate from that instruction. (Hopefully you gain the ability to… Read more How We Learn How To Write →

The Efforts of Children Superior to Today’s Adult

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Children come into this world serious beings. I know this is true because I watch Johnny, and once watched younger siblings, in their serious endeavors. Always the very young are seeking to acquire skills and accomplish feats. No one blames them that their goals are meaningless in the wider scheme of things. We know they are trying instinctually to become fully human.  Now why does this attitude peter out so quickly? Why do teens, for instance, talk unendingly of fun and we young adults complain of the effort it takes to accomplish our little… Read more The Efforts of Children Superior to Today’s Adult →