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 Laura Seeber | Feb 17, 2015 | Gas and Oil
Today as I look outside, there is a new layer of snow, and the thick, fluffy flakes slowly coming down from the sky tell me that there will probably be another few inches before the end of the day. The sky, thick with slow moving dull gray clouds tell me that although...
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 19, 2015 | Way Beyond Marietta
It’s as simple as this: You can’t expect your children to love learning if you don’t love to learn. If you don’t have a joy in learning it will be hard for them to have a joy in learning. Children learn what they live so as parents we must ask ourselves how we are...