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Why you homeschool matters more than how you homeschool.
But why is your homeschool affected by your thoughts: what is an education anyway?
So, let’s consider what an education is anyway? Let’s unveil education insights.
So let’s chat education insights.
What I’ve come to understand what is an education?
- An education just enables a human to live a life on purpose.
- To have meaningful work for oneself and one’s community.
- To be able to provide for oneself and one’s family.
- Also, to develop who you were meant to be.
The elements of a great education:
- A specific child.
- An engaged adult who is listening and observing that child’s interests and aptitudes.
- Find learning opportunities for that child.
Because I’ve been writing since we began homeschooling (more than 15 years ago), I’m able to look back at how I learned kids learn best.
I tried many methods:
- classical,
- traditional,
- Charlotte Mason,
- unschooling,
- Maria Montessori,
- Waldorf,
- co-ops,
- private school,
- public school,
- and college classrooms.
So what brought me toward a more self-directed/unschooled approach wasn’t just reading on unschooling (John Taylor-Gatto & John Holt) but actually OBSERVING my kids.
Very quickly, I learned that curiosity and imagination were the fuel for real education.
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What is REAL education??
A concept or experience that helps to serve a specific person to develop and become an adult that can participate in their community and offer the world something meaningful from themselves.
Therefore, soon into homeschooling, I learned that if they ask questions, I should listen and help them find the resources to answer their questions.
If they’re asking questions, it means they’re thinking. They’re either digesting something that I’m sharing or exploring something they heard about somewhere.
In other words, they’re learning.
Therefore, let them be curious & explorers.
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Teresa Wiedrick
I help overwhelmed homeschool mamas shed what’s not working in their homeschool & life, so they can show up authentically, purposefully, and confidently in their homeschool & life.
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