Albert Einstein had a sign hanging in his Princeton office that read:
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
I need to hold tightly to that thought as I try to figure out what our home education is supposed to look like. The oldest LittlePage is needing for things to be a little different, but I’m not quite sure how. I’m playing around with a schedule (this is huge for free-spirited, free-flying, do-as-I-feel me), I’m looking at all the “subjects”, I’m mulling over what exactly education is and why should we care.
I think I’ll try blogging my thoughts. Maybe one of you out there will be able to figure out what I want!
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I am so with you on this one… feeling a bit lost here lately, thus my lack of posting much on the matters of “education”. I love the Einstein quote, and yours as well, “what exactly is education and why should we care”. Yeah, sounds like a good place to start.
I do like this quote as well, keeps things in a good perspective too. “‘Education,’ said Lord Haldane, some time ago, ‘is a matter of the spirit.’ — no wiser word has been said on the subject, and yet we persist in applying education from without as a bodily activity or emollient. We begin to see light. No one knoweth the things of man but the spirit of a man which is in him; therefore, there is no education but self-education and as soon as a young child begins his education he does so as a student. Our business is to give him mind-stuff, and both quality and quantity are essential. Naturally, each of us possesses this mind-stuff only in limited measure, but we know where to procure it; for the best thought the world possesses is stored in books; we must open books to children, the best books; our own concern is abundant and orderly serving.” Charlotte Mason, Towards a Philosophy of Education
I’ll be eagerly waiting to see what you come up with.