Posts tagged Never Too Late
Self-Directed Education and Late Bloomers
Self-Directed Education and Late Bloomers

It seems that every discussion about education assumes the primary goal of lower educational institutions is to get people into higher educational institutions. But there are better ways of thinking of one’s learning besides as a means to get a checkbox ticked on an application—after all, learning never stops, it ebbs and flows in intensity over your life . . .

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Learning and Teaching, School reformPatrick FarengaNever Too Late, late bloomers, Dr. John Goodenough, geniuses Comment
New Fiction Inspired by John Holt's Writing about Learning
New Fiction Inspired by John Holt's Writing about Learning

Books about homeschooling tend to be nonfiction and educational in tone, so it is a pleasure to see an increase in novels written by homeschoolers that add fresh perspectives and stories about homeschooling and family life. I want to call out these two novels because they share a common inspiration—John Holt’s writing.

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John Holt, HomeschoolingPatrick FarengaThe Paradise Project, Never Too Late, homeschoolers in fictionComment