Category: and so it goes

• Masters & Taskmasters

  In the 1970s polymath Herbert Simon floated the idea that true mastery of a subject or skill takes 10,000 hours or so of effort, which…

• Attention Deficits

  Out in the world the other day I heard a young boy of seven or eight get scolded for not paying attention. The thing he…

• Lazy. So?

  Ronnie Maier did a great job in her recent blog post debunking the notion that unschooling = lazy parenting.  I suspect unschoolers will be making…

• At Some Point

  …you remember everything you knew before.  That is the point of departure, when your new life’s journey begins.