Explore2Learn
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School is a mixed bag. On one hand it is great that we provide free school to everyone, on the other hand the system doesn't work for everyone. If you find that you want more than the standard school can offer, you have many options open to you.
One idea is to supplement with home schooling full or part time, either on your own, as part of a home school group, a charter school, or some districts offer home school programs. You can follow strict purchased curricula, unschool, or find a medium that works for your family.
These are just a tiny sample of the many home schooling resources out there. The great thing about homeschooling is that you can find out what works best for your family because every family is different.
If that sounds too far out right now, you can add some enrichment of your own with museum trips, cool videos or books that they can learn from, or anything you or your children are interested in.
John Holt was an educator and author who learned so much about education and how people learn, and brought it to the world in his many books. He wrote one about his own educational journey as an adult. Here is a quote from the product description for Never too Late.
“If I could learn to play the cello well, as I thought I could, I could show by my own example that we all have greater powers than we think; that whatever we want to learn or learn to do, we probably can learn; that our lives and our possibilities are not determined and fixed by what happened to us when we were little, or by what experts say we can or cannot do.”Best known for his brilliant insight into the way children learn, John Holt was also an intrepid explorer of adult learning. At the age of forty, with no particular musical background, he took up the cello. His touching and hilarious account of his passionate second career demolished the myth that one must start an instrument (or a sport, or a language) in early childhood, and will inspire any reader who dreams of taking up a new skill.It's amazing how much you can learn on your own from books, people, workshops, classes at the parks department, workshops at the library, free internet courses, and many other sources of learning.
I don't have a listing of everything, but Google might help you find the topics that interest you. I do have a list of books that got me started thinking about education without schooling.
Get out there and meet others who are doing what you would like to do, learn from them and later you can teach the new people and pass it on. Most of all "Have Fun!".
Explore2Learn
United States