By Rosanne Trevaskis
Home education is not an easy option. It differs from classroom education and produces different results in the child, parents and in the family as a whole. Choosing to educate your child at home is making a long-term life-style decision that will affect every aspect of your family’s life. It is not a [...]
Archive for May, 2006
Otherways – Issue 108 – May to June 2006
In this issue:
The New Education Act Becomes Law.
Intelligence, Schools and Failure. Words of wisdom from the late John Holt.
Self-directed Education. Lyn reflects on her children’s education and her own.
An Argument between Friends. Shay Seaborne argues with a long-term friend about compulsory education and home education.
Gifts of Home Education. Rachel Phillips reflects on the benefits of [...]
Intelligence, Schools and Failure By John Holt
When we talk about intelligence, we do not mean the ability to get a good score on a certain kind of test, or even the ability to do well at school; these are at best only indicators of something larger, deeper, and far more important. By intelligence, we mean a style of life, a way of behaving in various situations, and particularly in new, strange, and perplexing situations. The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.
The intelligent person, young or old, meeting a new situation or problem, opens himself up to it; he tries to take in with mind and senses everything he can about it, he thinks about it, instead of about himself or what it might cause to happen to him; he grapples with it boldly, imaginatively, resourcefully, and if not confidently, at least hopefully; if he fails to master it, he looks without shame or fear at his mistakes and learns what he can from them. This is intelligence. …
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By Lyn Loxton
At the recent HEN symposium, a member of the audience asked the question, ‘How can I give my child a high level of education when I didn’t do very well at school myself?” This is not only one of the most asked questions, but many adults today assume that, just because they failed [...]
Research on Home education and special needs children
Special Ed Class or Homeschool? Statistics Speak
HSLDA writer – summary of Dr. Steven Duvall’s research
Academic research on home education of special needs children is encouraging. Dr. Steven Duvall is a behavioural psychologist who has objectively measured the amount of time and the kinds of interactions that take place in the classroom and in homeschool settings. [...]
Leunig on ‘Enough Rope’
Celebrated cartoonist and journalist, Michael Leunig, was interviewed on Andrew Denton’s Enough Rope and talked about home educating his children.
The transcript is available here http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1632918.htm . The topic of home education comes up about halfway through the transcript.