by Marietta City School District | May 21, 2015 | Education, Inspiration, Schools, Washington County
What is HPAC? It stands for Health Professions Affinity Compact. In the words of the students that are involved, it is much more than just a group to join. HPAC is an extracurricular club that gets students involved with the community and works to address a local...
by Donna Vail | Apr 28, 2015 | Homeschool, Schools
Self-education is the most organic form of learning. We were born wired for self-education and come into the world naturally self-educating. “It is a miracle that curiosity survives a formal education.” Albert Einstein Our society is structured around institutional...
by Donna Vail | Apr 14, 2015 | Homeschool, Schools
Education only occurs when the student self-educates. Every person is his own educator because he can only learn what he chooses to learn. Teachers can teach, and yes we can attend classes and lectures to learn, however the only students who truly learn are those who...
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...
