Cycle Two Post...
I couldn’t help when I read the cycle to introductory post that I begin to think about the different trends of homeschooling, and the trend of allowing children to follow their passions. I think, this is almost what a natural curriculum would look like; the fostering of children within the home and allowing them to follow their dreams without the interference of the “State” - in this case the political forces that drive how and why we look at and experience education in the way that we do. I am going to talk about a colleague of mine that I work with in China. He is from the Soviet Union, rather the former Soviet Union, but he has an American passport so he has had the best of both schooling systems, and he homeschools his children because he does not want his children indoctrinated in the Chinese nationalistic system. But he lets his children do whatever the hell they want. One student is a budding Chessmaster while the other student is really interested in film and TV product...