I still find it troubling that so many people feel the need to "teach" children something that is an innate part of childhood--teach them how to be joyful, teach them to be motivated, teach them to learn, teach them to think (as if they haven't already been thinking as they learned--with joy and without direct instruction--how to walk and communicate. Yes, we can facilitate those things, but until we stop suppressing these inborn characteristics through well-intended adult designed "education," and return the right and responsibility for self-directed learning to the children, we can never truly succeed because we are trying to "fix" something that we caused!
On Oct 23, 2016 Judy Yero wrote:
I still find it troubling that so many people feel the need to "teach" children something that is an innate part of childhood--teach them how to be joyful, teach them to be motivated, teach them to learn, teach them to think (as if they haven't already been thinking as they learned--with joy and without direct instruction--how to walk and communicate. Yes, we can facilitate those things, but until we stop suppressing these inborn characteristics through well-intended adult designed "education," and return the right and responsibility for self-directed learning to the children, we can never truly succeed because we are trying to "fix" something that we caused!