"...a great misfortune.."

"Not to like little children, or find them interesting and enjoy their company, is no great crime. But it is surely a great misfortune and a great loss, like having no legs or being deaf or blind."

John Holt

No. 2

I'm watching the movie 'No.2" At one point the daughter-in-law of the main character arrives and wants to know why the grandchildren are not at school. Nana says...

"How are they going to learn anything if they go to school all the time?"

Plato

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things"

A Interesting Week

Merenia, Will and I have spent the last 5 school days at Timatanga having school visits (Les also did a day of parent help). I'm not going to spoil Merenia's thunder as I know she is part way through a post about it.

From a more personal perspective while I believe it is a great little school it has left me with more questions than answers and made the decisions we have to make a lot harder for a number of reasons.

The one thing that was demonstrated quite clearly is that it is possible for a state integrated school to operate in a manner that much better suits the students (and I'd suggest the teachers also) within the State prescribed restrictions. I hope that will continue to be so with the new National Standards currently being introduced by the National Government.

I'll let Merenia tell the rest of the story (hopefully sometime soon) and fill in the gaps once she is done.

Quote...

"In general the best teacher or care-giver cannot match a parent of even ordinary education and experience." Dr Raymond Moore

I don't know who Raymond Moore is but I love the quote!