"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Thursday morning we hit the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord for "
Sunjata", an African drumming performance. Unfortunately, we had to take Caden since Grandma has relisted into 3rd grade, (filling in for a teacher who passed away unexpectedly).
Caden alternated between happily dancing and clapping with bursts of baby frustration (read: back arching, head throwing and body twists). I was exhausted after that hour.
We were so excited about the nice weather we decided to visit Keach Playground to get some much needed fresh air and exercise!
Gabriel's snarky t-shirt message fully explained our joy at spending the beautiful day outdoors while the rest of the audience boarded buses back to school. :P
After all that we bombarded McDonalds with our hungry bellies.
"By nature people are learning animals. Birds fly; fish swim; humans think and learn. Therefore, we do not need to motivate children into learning by wheedling, bribing, or bullying. We do not need to keep picking away at their minds to make sure they are learning. What we need to do - and all we need to do - is to give children as much help and guidance as they need and ask for, listen respectfully when they feel like talking, and then get out of the way. We can trust them to do the rest."
John Holt
"In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself." -Grace Llewellyn
"What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
George Bernard Shaw
Real, natural learning is in the living. It's in the observing, the questioning, the examining, the pondering, the analyzing, the watching, the reading, the DO-ing, the living, the breathing, the loving, the JOY. It's in the joy. ~Anne Ohman
"How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?" -Henry D. Thoreau
Thursday morning we hit the Capital Center for the Arts in Concord for "Sunjata", an African drumming performance. Unfortunately, we had to take Caden since Grandma has relisted into 3rd grade, (filling in for a teacher who passed away unexpectedly).
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