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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not…..� Thomas Henry Huxley

Archive for April, 2009

Not a concept I will support

Posted: Saturday, April 18th, 2009 @ 9:23 am in Food for Thought | 3 Comments »

My earliest years homeschooling was in an unfriendly-to-homeschoolers state, in an unfriendly-to-homeschoolers town. How unfriendly? When your kid’s friends parent’s tell you that your kid is no longer welcome to play with their kids cause you are now homeschooling you know you are in an unfriendly place. True story.
Being in [...]

I HATE MATH

Posted: Friday, April 17th, 2009 @ 5:22 pm in Logic Age, Math | 3 Comments »

The school year began and I knew I would hear:“I hate math”
My goal was to somehow, someway turn this kid’s attitude around.  But how?  Let’s get one thing straight right-away, I LOVE math.  I would enjoy doing nothing but math all day long.  For years I had claimed that I could teach anyone math, and to [...]