aquinas heard
@aquinasheard23
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Gymnastics center owner (‘97-‘17) K-5 school owner (‘01-‘03), separation of school & state (‘95), consent-based learning advocate, Objectivist
Marietta, GA
Joined March 2013
The future of learning for kids will be in a non-coercive environment. It’s from this premise that one must judge the new learning models that are currently developing for them. #futureoflearning
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Exactly….no force needed
I agree that reading classics is valuable. However, there are so many ways to encourage someone to read something that don't involve force. We can share what we're reading, why we enjoy it, how it relates to what the other person is interested in or currently reading, etc.
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It’s time to go way ‘old school’: “By mid-[20th]century, secondary education was the chief vehicle through which the young gained entrance to the world of work. In 1900, the private academies and the public high schools together enrolled only 10.2 percent of the youth in the
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One of the significant ways Aristotle's philosophy of reason spread and laid the groundwork for The Renaissance: "During the course of the Middle Ages, however, the number of matriculating students appears to have increased. The long range numbers are impressive. For the whole
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The decline of classical education in America: “Although the adoption of the elective system in American colleges during the last half of the nineteenth century ensured the eventual decline of the classics in American public education, determined classicists fought a spirited
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I wonder if it’s worth it to try to find this book: “Making the American Mind: Social and Moral Ideas in the McGuffey Readers. By RIcHARD D. Mosier. New York: King's Crown Press, 1947. Pp. vii + 207. $3.00. Next to Webster's Blueback Speller, the famous McGuffey Readers have
read.dukeupress.edu
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Wow!
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Yep
@MartinCothran By getting to know him or her. What excites the individual? What are his or her interests? What are his or her strengths? What does he or she want to accomplish? What does he or she care about? What problems does this person want to solve? What does he or she need to overcome?
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"Moreover, [Pietro] Pomponazzi contradicts not only the Platonic tradition but also Aristotle himself by declaring that it is the moral life, not the contemplative life, through which a human being attains his proper end and happiness. The speculative intellect, as he puts it, is
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This seems plausible as a partial explanation for the early (1830s-1850s) advocacy for public education in America: “It is estimated that at the time the Constitution was adopted in 1788, one out of every seven white male citizens could vote; by the time Jackson was elected
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A gem by @ImColbyLyons : “There is guidance that inspires. This is acceptable. There is "guidance" that requires, which is often insulting.”
@BLeBlan68656830 @MartinCothran When you say "led" do you mean that someone recommended Plato, or required Plato? There is a huge difference. There is guidance that inspires. This is acceptable. There is "guidance" that requires, which is often insulting.
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Nasty! What “we” need to normalize is the idea that government shouldn’t be involved with education:
We have to normalize telling kids “no” when they ask to use the bathroom during class
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Now that’s something I didn’t see in the ‘80s: (Middle school aged) guys riding their bikes with their skateboard stored on their back
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Child-rearing: Quakers&Mennonites>Puritans (Of course an adult’s worldview will affect how they treat children.) “Perhaps Bernard Bailyn’s thesis—that the New England family unit was severely disrupted as a result of frontier conditions, thus necessitating stricter community
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Being able to talk to an intelligent, logical, and honest person on a regular basis makes all the difference.
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"What is the fundamental source of the problems? The government operates its schools by force: by forcing parents to use them and by forcing taxpayers to finance them. As a consequence, to a large degree parents lack the freedom to hire the teachers who best meet their children’s
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