Learning for Life: Educational Words of Wisdom

Apr. 18, 2006 -

"Timetables! We act as if children are railroad trains running on a schedule. The railroad man figures that if his train is going to get to Chicago at a certain time, then it must arrive on time at every stop along the route. If it is ten minutes late getting into a station, he begins to worry. In the same way, we say that if children are going to know so much when they go to college, then they have to know this at the end of this grade and that at the end of that grade. If a child doesn't arrive at one of these intermediate stations when we think he should, we instantly assume that he is going to be late at the finish. But children are not railroad trains. They don't learn at an even rate. They learn in spurts, and the more interested they are in what they are learning, the faster these spurts are likely to be." - John Holt

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Apr. 22, 2006 - Love that!

Posted by joyfulhomeschool
I completely agree! thanks for sharing!
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