"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
After MUCH ado, the goats have arrived! 5 week old Gideon is a soon-to-be neutered male (a wether) and is a quadruplet. He and his sisters were lucky enough to be born polled (no horn buds) so escaped the awful disbudding procedure all babies usually endure. He is currently taking a bottle three times a day in addition to eating some grain and hay. He's super friendly and will jump in your lap (or your unsuspecting back) to cuddle. The kids are over the moon for him!
Geisha is called a junior doe meaning she is old enough to be bred for the first time. We think she is pregnant and if so, she'll be due in the fall. She's very skittish at this point and won't let you get your hands on her except Grandma did get her to eat some grain out of her hand. With some time and patience, we hope she'll warm up to us. She's very curious though and keeps an eye on what we're up to.
"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
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