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See here for a full explanation. " Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability ...

Am finally going beyond the reasonable range of the laptop. Thought I would leave here with a summary of our Philosophy of Home Education. W...

It seems that the hypothesis of the link between the placebo effect and faith in God is gaining some ground. The New Scientist this week re...

There are plenty of ex-teachers in the HE community around here. They are, naturally enough, fully aware of the pitfalls of schooling. The...

I should be helping Dh and Ds pick up the junk from the wall they've just knocked down, but this is just not possible when there are su...

An article about humans on display at London Zoo provides an exemplary account of British muddle-headedness. Had this happened in the State...

With the news in the New Scientist that the Placebo Effect is real, (placebos delivers an opioid hit to the brain), it is not a great leap ...

Have recently discovered the secret of the most rewarding game of tennis: a Prince Thunder racket and three glasses of champagne. This is a...

The absorbing discussion about home education and schooling continues at Expat Teacher with another poster, US teacher Mo-Lak Jedi, posing ...

Yet more Truancy Patrol Guidelines from the DfES and the Home Office were issued in July, and as usual if you replaced the word "child...

For an explanation of the likely superiority of HE over schooling, see David Deutsch's mail at the Taking Children Seriously Website

There has been a tantalising exchange of views between Chris O'Donnell at his US Home School Blog and Expat Teacher . Expat started it ...

Problems with the criticism of religious faith. From the article : A certain Dr. Hauptman is of the opinion that "Belief in the superna...

New Sisyphus has really done his homework on this one . He explains in some detail how the contention that Bush knowingly lied about WMD whe...

Problems with the Defense of the Mix of Scientific Method and Religious Faith. From the article : Some scientists say simply that science an...

Many thanks to Daryl at HEOS for this link to a New York Times article on how scientists square religious faith with scientific endeavour. ...

The top universities in the world can be found ranked here . Home Educators of our acquaintance have recently got into the 2nd, 23rd and 26t...

Phew, I have to say that is a bit of relief. He's finally gone. The strain of living with an downright gorgeous 20 year old, straight ...

We here in the UK are lucky insofar as creationism is not pedalled in most of our schools. In the US on the other hand, no less than 13 Stat...

The past two weeks seem to have left me with the impression that all I have actually done is struggle to put Dd's armbands on and off, b...