by Donna Vail | Mar 3, 2015 | Homeschool, Homeschool, Schools
The majority of people who made the greatest contributions that impacted life as we know it today were self-educators. The likes of Benjamin Franklin, Michael Faraday, Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Bowditch, Thomas Edison, Herman Melville, Rabindranath Tagore and...
by Donna Vail | Feb 2, 2015 | Homeschool, Schools
In order to make real learning happen we need to awaken the New Educators Mind. You are embarking on a journey to live your whole life and with a love of learning. For most of us, a love of learning is a foreign concept only because of the relationship to the past...
by Maggie Robertson | Jan 28, 2015 | Beyond Marietta, College Scene
Sometimes I wonder if all the questions we ask are really questions or just our way of reassuring ourselves with the same answers over and over again. If you think about it, education is a life-long process of getting- and keeping information. We learn from our...
by Donna Vail | Jan 5, 2015 | Homeschool, Way Beyond Marietta
Are you the educator in your household and your spouse is not? What is an educator anyway? An educator is one who educates and develops the faculties and powers of another by teaching or instruction. In the modern homeschool, more often than not one spouse assumes the...
by Donna Vail | Dec 29, 2014 | Beyond Marietta, Homeschool
Usually when I meet someone for the first time and they learn that I’m a homeschooling mother of six children they often say something like, “Oh, I could never do that with my two children, I don’t know how you do it all with six children.” This is before they find...
