"Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how." -John Holt
Last week Gabriel exclaimed how he would like to make soap and put little "guys", (a.k.a lizards, army men, rocks, etc...) in it. I said, maybe we could do that with our lil' co-op and lo and behold, a week later, VOILA! Glycerin soap & little guys...
Ummm... uhh... except I forgot to take pictures of that part. Here's another mom's shot of the counter where we worked... It was fun, it was smelly, it was messy. I'm sure we'll be re-creating this in our own kitchen.
Meanwhile, some kids were upstairs playing as well... Like Bomey... again captured by another Mommy...
However, we also made goop! And I was there to document
that with horrid pictures...
Gabriel was utterly fascinated with the slimey mixture and it continues to live in our bathroom in a zip-loc baggy for god knows how long... :S
"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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