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Education and Responsibility: Why Learning Should Strengthen the Person’s Control
Education and responsibility belong together. A real education helps a child observe, think, act, correct mistakes, and become more capable...
Read Article Self-Determined Learning: Why Interest Is a First Principle of Education
Self-determined learning explains why a child’s own interest, purpose, and engagement are essential to real education, while still requiring adult...
Read Article My Choices Matter: A Classroom Poster of Consequences
My Choices Matter is a short classroom poster for helping children understand cause and effect, responsibility, trust, learning, and personal...
Read Article The School as a Formation System: Why Schools Shape More Than the Mind
A school is a formation system. It shapes students through curriculum, routines, authority, language, peer culture, standards, and what it...
Read Article Structure Before Learning: Why Order Is One of the Conditions of Education
Structure before learning explains why attention, rhythm, standards, responsibility, correction, and sequence are necessary conditions of education.
Read Article First Principles in Education
by Richard P. Weigand Education begins long before a child opens a textbook. It begins with a question. What is...
Read Article Instruction vs. Formation: Why Education Is More Than Information Delivery
Instruction gives information, but formation shapes the person. Learn why education must form attention, conduct, judgment, responsibility, and character.
Read Article Parents as the First Educators: Why the Family Comes Before the School
Parents are the first educators of the child. This article explains why family formation comes before school instruction and why...
Read Article What Is Education For?
What is education for? This article examines education as the formation of knowledge, judgment, attention, responsibility, language, and character.
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