"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table, while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of coloured paper, or plant straw trees in bead flower-pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experience." -- Anne Sullivan
Museum of Science
Ben was facinated with Da Vinci's watertower...
Roar!!
That's cool!!
Do they have this at the gift shop?
What's the difference anyway?
Ben, Hannah, Ed and I went to the Museum of Science in Boston on Saturday. Lots of fun things to see and explore. We looked at so many exhibits, went to lunch in Fanuiel Hall, came back to the museum, visited the coveted gift shop, saw the lightening show( very cool!!) and discovered the "play area" at the end. Fun day. Long, but fun:~)
Reading Material
- Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled Life by Rue Kream
- The Tao of Pooh
- Herbal Remedies for Children's Health by Rosemary Gladstar
- The Well Adjusted Child by Rachel Gathercole
- Living Simply With Children by Marie Sherlock
Ben was facinated with Da Vinci's watertower...
Roar!!
That's cool!!
Do they have this at the gift shop?
