Yearly Archives: 2010

Should School Be Boring? John Taylor Gatto Says No!

I taught for 30 years in some of the worst schools in New York City, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave…

Active Learning! Is It the Way Children Learn Best?

* Italicized portions taken from Angela Oswalt’s MSW on Jean Piaget, January, 2008 “Seat learning” as it is sometimes called in mainstream schools may not be best for your child. It seems homeschooling parents have a head start on transforming their children’s education from a passive and often boring format to an active, lively, and…