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“It takes a lot of courage to step away from seeing your children as a reflection of yourself and your parenting skills. Facing the reality that there are no guarantees with parenting, no matter how much you want to get it right, is a frightening thing. Everyone wants certainty deep down, and to know that they aren’t screwing their kids up. Doing this without school requires particular courage.”
― Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning
― Changing Our Minds: How children can take control of their own learning
“medical model. It focuses on biology and individuals, with very little account taken of the environment. It assumes that a person who behaves in a certain way does so because of something about them (or something in their brain), and rarely asks what in their environment is resulting in this behaviour.”
― A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
― A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
“Young people who are allowed to choose what they do set themselves challenging goals, including taking exams, and then apply themselves to succeeding in those goals. It’s always seemed a bit odd to me that we don’t think young people would do this, since adults make challenging choices for themselves all the time. I am surrounded by adults learning complicated skills because they want to, and I really can’t see why young people wouldn’t do the same, unless their relationship with learning has been damaged by years of coercion.”
― A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
― A Different Way to Learn: Neurodiversity and Self-Directed Education
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