Going Mainstream!
Last Monday I took my kids on a *homeschool cruise* around Manhattan. It was just the Circle Line one that caters to NYC tourists. Over 90 minutes we motored, slowly, [...]
Educational Empires
Today I just want to share an analogy that just popped into my head. About 500 years ago, brave souls started leaving the social stratification and intolerance of England for [...]
Video Game Violence!
I'm not talking about the content, first-person shooters, glorified gangs, thieves, and pimps....I'm talking about ME versus everyone, and I mean literally EVERYONE, who blithely lets their kids [...]
Piano Plus Singing?
Watch the video above....it's not just a pic with a weird arrow on it! That was at last week's homeschool talent show in NYC. We started piano only 13 months [...]
Updates – Math, Chess
John is chugging along with Khan Academy. As you can see, now he's completed 320 of the 415 *skills*. If one goes too slow with this, well, that's not good [...]
Piano Progress – 1 Year!
John's teacher said that in the course of a single year he has done "at least two and a half year's" worth of work. When John wakes up in the [...]
Educational Institutions – Completely Obsolete?
I believe I've previously posted another video of this man - Sugata Mitra - where he also discusses the poor Indian children who taught themselves all sorts of amazing things [...]