If You See Buddha Kill Him
There are no ‘saviors,’ no ‘spiritual’ teachers. Research suggests that as much as 95 percent of all learning is state specific. Only 5 percent of what we learn...
If Not Teaching, Then What?
My daughter, Carly Elizabeth, is a regular five-year-old. She mastered the two most-challenging tasks she will ever encounter: standing on two legs, balancing and walking upright, and establishing the foundations for symbolic language by eighteen-months, without one second of formal ...
What is the meaning of education?
If today is a typical day on planet Earth, we will lose 116 square miles of rainforest, or about an acre a second. We will lose another 72 square miles to encroaching deserts, as a result of human mismanagement and ...
Qualities, Capacities, Content and Curriculum
“Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein Ask yourself: “If my child was one of the last living members of the human race, and he or she would carry the DNA memory that would give birth ...
Can you feel my heart sing?
All we want is to touch, to be touched, closeness, to feel attunement, acceptance, and that deep feeling of shared wellbeing with others; love, bonding, safety, play and peace. That is really all there is to it. Not feeling this, ...
Returning to our senses
Bev Bos noted, “Experience isn’t the best teacher, experience is the only teacher.” I was sharing with Barbora, a bright twentyish lass from the Czech Republic, how the nuclear family, mother-father-children living in isolation, emerged as the extended family, still ...