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Book Review: “I, Robot” by Isaac Asimov
One of the most important responsibilities of a parent is choosing appropriate reading material for their children. Books contain a wealth of ideas, and while exploring different ideas is a good activity for adults to do on a regular basis, … Continue reading
Posted in Fire Bird, Parenthood, Teacherhood
Tagged asimov, book analysis, book review, children's reading, communist infiltration, communist propaganda, communist writer, comprehension exercise, critical thinking, critical thinking exercise, cultural marxism, dangerous book, dangerous ideas, Education, evidence of bias in science fiction, harmful ideas, politics in fiction, reading, reading list, robots in literature, science fiction, teenage reading
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Motivating the Unmotivated Child
“I didn’t learn much in school last year,” said the 11 year old boy I look after. “Oh, really?” I asked. “Why not?” “I don’t think my teacher was very good and it felt like a waste of time going … Continue reading
Posted in Homeschooling, Teacherhood
Tagged Children, Education, homeschooling, independent learning, kids, learning math, learning strategies, learning timestables, motivated education, motivated learning, motivating students, motivation, motivation for maths, self-learning, teaching ideas, teaching strategies, timestables, tutor, tutoring, unschooling
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How Schools Encourage Co-dependency
Co-dependence is a technical word for what people used to refer to as “battered wife/husband syndrome” where one person in the relationship completely sacrifices their freedom and well-being to take care of the other person who takes them for granted. Such people see themselves as responsible for managing the feelings of the other person. They falsely believe they are in control of the other person’s feelings and deny the other person’s responsibility for their own problems.
There is a twelve point checklist used as a guide to determine if a person is co-dependent. Let us go through this list of items one by one and see how the public school system encourages this pathological approach to relationships. Continue reading
Posted in Adulthood, Parenthood, Teacherhood, Water Bird
Tagged anxiety, child abuse, Children, co-dependence, dysfunction, Education, harming children, identity cults, maturity, mental health, personal growth, psychology, relationships, schooling, self-apathy, self-esteem, self-value, statism, Teacher
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10-Hour School Days, Progress or Totalitarianism?
King in Prussia William I was building an army, an army that his son would later use to attack Austria and Poland with, to achieve this goal he concluded that two years military service was not sufficient to drill a … Continue reading
Posted in Education News, News
Tagged brain washing, Children, control, Education, freedom, government, History, indoctrination, liberty, media, news, politicians, politics, public schooling, publicly funded education, publicly funded schooling, school, spin, state, state control, statism, totalitarianism, uk, uk politics
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Erica Goldson’s Valedictorian Speech
Erica Goldson astonished her teachers and peers with her graduation speech about the public education system and the warped values pushed onto children by the state. Her courage, wisdom and integrity is inspiring. If the audio in the video is … Continue reading
Posted in Adulthood
Tagged Education, Erica Goldson, Graduation, obedience training, schooling, speech, statism, test taking, thinking, Valedictorian
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Homeschooling in Australia
When I tell people that I am working on a business that promotes and supports homeschooling one of the first questions people ask me is how many children are homeschooled in Australia. Typically I can immediately bring up statistics for … Continue reading
Posted in Air Bird, Education News, Homeschooling, News, Parenthood
Tagged ABC news, Australia, bias, Education, Herald Sun, HomeSchool, homeschooling, mainstream media, media bias, news, report, State school, statistics
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Making Trigonometry Interesting
Trigonometry is a branch of geometry; one of the major fields in mathematics. The name literally means, “the measuring of triangles” (from Greek trigōnon “triangle” + metron “measure”). As a child in school, I had a hard time understanding why … Continue reading
Posted in Air Bird, Earth Bird, Homeschooling, Teacherhood
Tagged Education, fun math, fun maths, geometry, Math, maths, practical mathematics, Right angle, Right triangle, Teacher, teaching, teaching math, teaching maths, Triangle, Trigonometry
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The Future of Learning
Apologies for the lack of new content. I have been a busy working behind the scenes whenever I have had the time available. I will return to regular content updates soon. In the meantime, here is an interesting video about … Continue reading
Posted in Air Bird, Education News, News, Teacherhood
Tagged change, Education, learning, mentoring, Online Media, schooling, YouTube
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RSA Animate – Changing Education Paradigms
This is a thought-provoking video. I agree with much of what Ken Robinson says, however, from an economic point of view governments have limited incentives to change or improve the education system. In fact, I would argue that the problems … Continue reading
Posted in Air Bird, Education News, Water Bird
Tagged adhd, animation, anxiety, anxiety disorder, creativity, Divergent thinking, Education, History, inventiveness, K through 12, Ken Robinson, medication, over-medication, pedagogy, RSA, RSA Animate, schooling, video
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