old learning ways
Auckland, New Zealand
Little Routine We Wrote In Romania is now up on our wall:
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looks serious huh?
don’t be fooled! We’re not ready for noticeboards telling us what to do đ
I wrote this before we went away:
Euripedes observed âExperience, travel â these are as education in themselvesâ and I wonder if his mates thought he was somewhat naive and a whole lot arrogant, not to mention possibly even ignorant. Certainly Aristophanes poked fun of him publically in his own plays, but who knows if this was due to educational beliefs? Weâre off to discover whether or not Euripides was right.
He was.
And it’s so hard to explain to people that the kids’ education was in no way compromised by the fact that those under thirteen did absolutely no formal textbook learning for over a year. But then we don’t really learn like that at home either. We do learn though.
Tags: 2008/09, book, children, homecoming, learning, postcard: New Zealand
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