October 26, 2010

Schooling At Home

I have been teaching my kids for a while now, their whole life even, and I cannot tell you how rewarding and fun it is to see the spark in my own children as they learn and explore about life.

I know deep down I am doing the right thing even though I hear all the naysayers, like many atheists here, speak of my inability to teach. Its just wrong and baseless. I believe they are trying to knock down some of the complete confidence I have in my decision to do so. I know with certainty that it is, and was, the right decision based on the fruit that I am witnessing. I am enjoying watching everyone collaborate on such an intimate level with various subjects and I can see how effective it is.

(Proverbs 22:6, Deuteronomy 6:7, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 29:17)


As just one example, before my child is even double digits in age she is exploring, and successful in, creating and manipulating 3 dimensional CAD drawings and flash animations as a mere hobby in exploring her creative side, the side I encourage the most. My teaching secret is that I just show her how to access the tools for tasks she wishes to accomplish, and she takes over. More importantly is, that I get out of the way to allow it. My other kids seems so advanced with knowledge in their age and catch on so quickly to things.

Just the other day, I came across something that I thought was so wonderful, and so creative, in presenting a subject I just had to share it. I have watched 2 now and I am convinced that if anyone can do this, then they should do it as a lucrative career. I love the method to get the messages across and wished my dry erase board evoked this much talent in my drawings. Maybe it will with my kids. This dry erase board on steroids is such a great, and fun, way to teach a captive audience that I, as a home schooling Dad, would buy the entire K-12 DVD curriculum, if it were available and Biblically based that is, I have high standards after all. Its the reason why the School House Rock episodes stuck with me all these years, more then my history teachers that is. Imagine if your teachers did this method, and how much the information would be absorbed, though not practical on such a small scale and time constraints, just saying. This medium is very powerful in getting points across.

This is a multi-million dollar idea out there for the taking. Do curriculum in this form geared to Biblical Homeschooling parents, such as myself, and I will be the first in line and the back orders would be hard to fill.   

So take a look at this message, see if you agree, and take notice to the method used in presenting the subject. The irony is that this video is exploring and examining a better system for schooling, I would say look no further. Its simply captivating to me. I am a huge fan now of their work. I am unclear as to their position about God yet, and that will determine any future support. I will be very disappointed if they are exclusively secular. That being said, this particular video rang so true with me since its about school systems and teaching, something I am intimately involved in.

Catch up, or get left behind.


UPDATE: OK listened to more. One that I found very humorous was David Harvey's "Crisis of Capitalism" from a Marxist perspective? Really? Anyway, that hogwash was entertaining but I was merely pointing out the technique being used as a sound idea, not the ideas being highlighted by the UK group. I did find a counter for the video if anyone is interested in how I would address this particular video. It's called Crisis of Capitalism, The Critique and was presented very well.

12 comments:

  1. I thought that picture looked familiar:

    http://nobirthcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/08/homeschooling-year-one-our-first.html

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  2. Stupid,

    Yea, I thought the captions did not allow for links so a simple credit to my friends post is all I put up. But I tried it just now, and it does allow links, so I changed it.

    What is surprising is that you read that blog to "recognize" the picture. Do you have a quiver full to raise, or is there another reason why you visit that blog?

    Erm...also any comment on my post or is that it?

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  3. I was a Quiverfuller once upon a time. I have three children and I miscarried two. Eventually I realized that being a broodmare to a backward religious sect wasn't my calling after all.

    So that isn't your family, Dan?

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  4. Stupid,

    >>So that isn't your family, Dan?

    Yes, we have quite the Quiver full and they keep coming. Not to mention my prior days of the past before becoming a Christian. I do feel truly blessed.

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  5. They are beautiful children. You are truly "blessed". :)

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  6. UPDATE: OK listened to more. One that I found very humorous was David Harvey's "Crisis of Capitalism" from a Marxist perspective? Really? Anyway, that hogwash was entertaining but I was merely pointing out the technique being used as a sound idea, not the ideas being highlighted by the UK group. I did find a counter for the video if anyone is interested in how I would address this particular video. It's called Crisis of Capitalism, The Critique and was presented very well.

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  7.      I note an inconsistency. You believe "government knows best" when it comes to drug use, but not when it comes to teaching. This is not simply inconsistency with an older position, unless you have changed your mind about whether government should stick its nose in drug use. It is an inconsistency within your current beliefs.

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  8. Pvb,

    >>You believe "government knows best" when it comes to drug use, but not when it comes to teaching.

    You're loading the dice and you're completely illogical. Strange, I thought you knew more then this. Maybe I am giving your intelligence more credit then it deserves. Its understandable why Wem would find this an interesting discussion though.

    The government doesn't have a brain to make such decisions. Its not that the government "knows best" at all, but its that I know what is best. If the government agrees with my position then they are doing the right thing.

    A fiscally responsible government is certainly not what the government is all about, at least not the current one. If they do decide to do so, then they are in agreeance with my positions. Its not that they know it to be best.

    I do understand that you want the government out of your blood stream though to allow you to do as you wish. Meth is very addictive and hard to hide otherwise. Its still making you paranoid and is negatively effecting me, and people around you, personally. Ditch the habit man!

    So if the government keeps harmful drugs, like heroin, meth, and sticky-icky, illegal then they are doing the "will of the people", the right thing. If they want to indoctrinate kids into a secularized system of drone-ery then they are accommodating just one part of society, and their religion, and is unconstitutional.

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  9.      "The government doesn't have a brain to make such decisions. Its not that the government "knows best" at all, but its that I know what is best. If the government agrees with my position then they are doing the right thing."
         So, instead, you think that government should keep its nose out of everything you want to do but micromanage others who do things you don't like. Is that it?
         "I do understand that you want the government out of your blood stream though to allow you to do as you wish. Meth is very addictive and hard to hide otherwise. Its still making you paranoid and is negatively [affecting] me, and people around you, personally. Ditch the habit man!"
         As I have explained to you before, I don't do drugs. So you already know that. You are therefore lying when you say "It's [referring back to meth] still making you paranoid..." The realigy is that I believe, on general principle, that government should keep its nose out of micromanaging the lives of the citizenry. This means that there are things I would rather people not do that I think the government has no business interfering in. That goes for you denying your children an effective education. And it goes for people doing drugs.

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