The best schools in the world should be free because education should not come with a price tag! And the best curriculum should teach children as well as adults the meaning of friendship, happiness and inclusiveness. Life values should be inculcated naturally in one’s daily lives. Learning is not dissected or isolated into neatly packaged [...]
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Someone asked us a couple of months ago, what meaningful thing are you going to do for the next 10 years of your life? We know what we want to do. What about you? Life without purpose is like journey without destination. You go about it aimlessly and dispassionately, which is what a lot of [...]
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Amrita, or Am, as she is now fondly called, has always been a loving and responsible daughter. At five years of age, she asked what “independent” meant, and when she got the answer, she said she wanted to be independent!
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Judging from the plethora of books in the market on “How to teach your baby/child to read” and hundreds of similarly titled books, we can safely deduce that parents and educators view the ability to read (and starting as early as possible!) to be highly and profoundly important.
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What is natural learning? It is learning that comes naturally to the child. Natural learning is learning that is self-motivated …, it has to be interest-driven
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M is for movies, magic and music. Our kids are movie buffs, thanks to their dad.
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There is so much to learn these days that to attempt to learn them all would be quite futile. More important than trying to learn everything is to adopt a LEARNING MIND. A learning mind is a mind that is curious and inquisitive, constantly seeking new answers to problems old and new, and progressively evolving [...]
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Here are series of previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE, might be useful to some. FamilyPlace is the predecessor of Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents). At an age where three-year-old kids ought to be exploring their world (both imaginative and otherwise) with all their bodily [...]
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Here are series of previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE, might be useful to some. FamilyPlace is the predecessor of Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents). As a child, I spoke Chinese at home – Hakka with my grandpa, Cantonese with my grandma, Mandarin [...]
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