The results of the home-school experiment

by Jill Schinas in October 2013

We all arrive in this world with a certain level of curiosity, and that curiosity will be directed according to an individual’s own particular character or bent. The art in teaching children is to stoke their curiosity. As anybody who has ever had charge of a capricious wood-stove will know, if one is clumsy or over-enthusiastic and dumps too much wood onto the flames then they can easily be stifled; but, on the other hand, if one kindles the fire…

The Purpose of Education

by Jill Schinas in October 2013

From time to time we get e-mails from people who are excited to hear about our very informal home-schooling method but who want to know, “What happened next?” The last time I wrote on this subject Caesar and Xoë were struggling with their A-levels. But that was four years ago! Did they pass the exams? Did they qualify for university? And what are they doing now? How does an utterly un-schooled child fare when the time comes from him to…