"Today, children are being introduced to books and stories one paragraph at a time. They might be reading something as wonderful as Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia, but when you have to stop and answer questions, in detail, often word-for-word, about random paragraphs, there's no way you can learn to care about the characters or the … Continue reading For the Love of Reading
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Spielen Macht Frei (Play Sets You Free)
"The Prussian model seeks to create a population for whom work, no matter how mind-numbing or back-breaking, is the only hope. That's why they try to inspire us with the promise of a freedom that will never come. When we keep play alive in our own lives, in the lives of our children, even if … Continue reading Spielen Macht Frei (Play Sets You Free)
Teacher Tom & Transformation
...without pain, without struggle, without anguish, discomfort and fear, transformation is impossible...Real learning, which is to say, transformation from a state of ignorance to one of enlightenment, is in reality more of a lurching, spiraling, ebb and flow, full of peaks and valleys, and yes, pain and suffering. Those of us in the world of … Continue reading Teacher Tom & Transformation
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