Deschooling Our LivesMatt Hern A provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools, this book argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood, and community-based educational efforts. Hern examines how the day-to-day experience of school teaches subservience, deadens children's natural love of learning, undercuts their self-esteem, and limits independent thought. |
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Page 15
... human nature , but a phenomenon which proves the undeveloped condition of human thought , and therefore , it cannot be put at the base of intelligent human activity - of science . Education is the tendency of one man to make another ...
... human nature , but a phenomenon which proves the undeveloped condition of human thought , and therefore , it cannot be put at the base of intelligent human activity - of science . Education is the tendency of one man to make another ...
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... Human beings are capable of a direct experience of that Divine Ground , in such a way that the knower unites with the known ; 3. Human Beings have a double nature , a temporal ego and an eternal self , which is the divine spark within ...
... Human beings are capable of a direct experience of that Divine Ground , in such a way that the knower unites with the known ; 3. Human Beings have a double nature , a temporal ego and an eternal self , which is the divine spark within ...
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... human existence and the meaning of life we are going to have to reorganize our educational institutions on a human scale , and those institutions are going to have to be independent of the state . Although this is a huge task , I ...
... human existence and the meaning of life we are going to have to reorganize our educational institutions on a human scale , and those institutions are going to have to be independent of the state . Although this is a huge task , I ...
Contents
Matt Hern | 1 |
Designed to Destroy Individual Thought? | 39 |
Geraldine LynPiluso Gus LynPiluso and Duncan Clarke | 48 |
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