Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Education vs Schooling

So the new school year starts.  I was able to see my friends posting pictures of their kids on social media.  Many proud parents.  My youngest son begins grade 10 this year.  But on his first week of school we did something different.  School learning (ie Book Learning) has always come easy to myself and my two boys.  We are fortunate to be able to learn the way schools teach kids.  This is not true of all kids.  Each kid needs different drivers or motivators for them to learn and unfortunately sitting in a classroom and listening to lectures or reading from books does not work for them.

This is why I have always championed education rather than schooling.  Education encompasses much more than what is taught in our schools.  So for my son's first week of school his education was learning to ride in the back country and fish in mountain lakes.  Our experiences are what makes us individuals and our experiences in life are our education.




I've never let my school interfere with my education.

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