What’s Really Wrong With Our Schools?” is one of several excellent articles/books/speeches written/given by John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991. Below are some of his views about public education. “The Six Lesson Schoolteacher” “Against Schools” – How public education cripples our children, and why “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum…
Category: Home Education
Deuteronomy 6:4-6
Lifelong Learning
Home education is not only about reading, writing and arithmetic. It includes learning about life and enjoying the world in which we live. It is teaching and training children the way to learn for the rest of their lives. Home education, in the right mindset, begins at birth setting in motion a love for learning. Training continues until a child takes the reins and discovers his own love of learning and continues to learn and grow through his life. To limit education to finishing middle school or high school or even college, puts a child into a box and quenches vision of a lifetime of discovery as well as personal growth.
Everybody’s Doing It – Socialization
hen I was still a baby believer, I had a pastor ask me the following question: “Where in the Bible is the majority right?”
The Birth of Shema Academy
Shema Academy “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you…