What is wrong with facilitated learning?
SCHOOL EDUCATION VOL. 3 PAGE 65
We safegaurd the initiative of the child and we realise that, in educational work, we must take a back seat; the teacher, the teacher even when the teacher is the parent, is not to be too much in the front. There is no more facile way of swamping character and individuality than by the idol of the ‘fifties’ — personal influence.
VOL. 6 PAGE 66
TEACHING MUST NOT BE OBTRUSIVE
The child who learns from his science from a text-book, though he go to nature for illustrations , and he who gets his information from object-lessons, has no chance of forming relationswith things as they are, because his kindly obtrusive teacher makes him believe thatt o know about things is the same thing as knowing them personally;……
VOL.6 PAGE 67
The art of standing aside to let a child develop the relations proper to him is the fine art of education, when the educator perceives the two things he must do and how to do these two things. The evolution of the individual is a natural sequence of the opening up of relations.
HOW WE LABOR FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF THE RACE I HOPE TO SHOW MORE FULLY, LATER.
Listen to Dean Gotcher explain what has happened and is happening in education be it Public, Private or Homeschool. Listen to the audios part 1 and 2 to grasp and understand what is wrong with present thinking today.
