Custom Schools with a Class size of 1 or 4
This last September, our 13-year-old boy, Logan, rather than return to his San Francisco private school began taking lessons in a custom school his mother and I created around him. I don’t use the word...
View ArticleWhat should be the school year be for custom schoolers?
Our family has built a “custom school” around our 14 year-old child with hired teachers, and it is working out fantastically well. He is learning more than his former classmates, according to his...
View ArticleCustom Schooling Workshop at the Internet Archive on Wed, Jan 11, 2012
Custom Schooling Workshop in San Francisco Everyone is welcome to the first workshop on “custom schooling“, an approach to schooling with class sizes from 1 to 4 that is surprisingly affordable,...
View ArticleCustom Schooling Workshop a Success! Video enclosed.
40 people came to the first workshop on “custom schooling“, an approach to schooling with class sizes from 1 to 4 that is surprisingly affordable, manageable, effective, and fun. Paper on the subject,...
View ArticleAnother class-size-of-1 school, but seemingly more expensive
A fellow custom-school parent, Karina, pointed out a class-size-of-1 school: Fusion Academy. It seems expensive compared to what we are spending (we are $35/hour, but we are doing the arranging and...
View ArticleHumble Attempt at an Intellectual History in 5 Steps: Progress in How We...
First, understanding comes from place and environment: Each Sumerian city had a god… the Greeks, more or less the same. Then, Understanding came from “the word”. Hebrews had their Torah that had...
View ArticleHigh Stakes Testing– is Failing
Diane Ravitch’s book The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education was a thoughtful antidote to the highly touted movie Waiting for “Superman”...
View ArticleIf the ‘safety-net’ that went from Church to Government now goes to...
From the middle ages through the 1800′s, the “social safety net” in the west used to be offered by “the Church” (which church varied by region). Think about schools, alms for the poor, asylums,...
View Article“Change the World”, “Do No Evil”, what about something else–“Amplify Good” or ?
Maybe we should question mottoes and think of new ones. Steve Jobs would often say he was “Changing the World.” Google’s founders repeated a motto of “Do No Evil.” Mottos may seem trite, but they...
View ArticleWhen I First Realized I was being Lied to…
When I first realized I was being lied to, systematically lied to, and by the government, I felt upset, then felt duped, and it started me thinking– how far does this lying go? It was in the beginning...
View ArticleThe Myth of the Self-Made Man, or maybe better said: Thank You.
My dear sons, Caslon and Logan– Those that proclaim themelves “Self Made”, I am convinced, are either ignorant or marketers. Ignorant of the many people that help us along, push us along, often without...
View ArticleLearning to Love 78rpm Records
I am loving 78’s and you might too. Here are some of the ways I have learned about these things that I knew nothing about a couple of years ago. The Internet Archive is digitizing 5,000 per month and...
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