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How could a modern educator “take into account the value of [a] natural home atmosphere”? • Mason says it “stultifies a child to bring the world to the ‘child’s’ level,” but are there times when you have to do that? • What do you think Mason would say about Internet usage restrictions in schools? Ask questions that require learners to create
... See moreJulie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Babies are similarly fascinated by causal relations between objects. Babies in the ribbon-and-mobile experiments actually get bored after a while with the spectacle of the mobile moving, but they don’t get bored with the sensation of their own power.
Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
Repetition of the familiar is essential for developing focus and true knowledge at every stage of development.
Paula Polk Lillard • Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three
and it was Marx who turned them on to Takashi Murakami and Tsuguharu Foujita. It was Marx, with his love of avant-garde instrumental music, who played Brian Eno, John Cage, Terry Riley, Miles Davis, and Philip Glass on his CD player while Sadie and Sam worked. It was Marx who suggested they reread The Odyssey and The Call of the Wild and Call It
... See moreGabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
make-believe play helps children develop critical cognitive skills known as executive function.
Kim John Payne M.Ed. • Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
A qualified guess is that they spent between one and four hours daily in... See more
Henrik Karlsson • Childhoods of Exceptional People
Our most important job—to provide a calm, secure, and loving haven for our children as they go about the challenging business of growing up—has been utterly compromised.
Madeline Levine PhD • Teach Your Children Well
Working-class families are more likely to pursue what Lareau calls a natural growth style of parenting.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Those who think the natural curiosity of children is stifled by pedagogical instruction overlook something fundamental about human nature – as a species, we have always depended on the epistemic endowment of our elders and ancestors. Our generation didn’t need to rediscover fire or how to build a skyscraper.