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The role of imagination in education is underrated.

Everything that can be learned or understood hasn’t been learned or understood. If all we do for our kids’ education is to encourage our kids to memorize what the world has already learned, then are we really allowing our kids a meaningful education.

Let’s get out of our kids’ way and allow them to co-create in this world.

What is the role of imagination in education?

I share two thoughts to consider so you can get out of the way and allow for the role of imagination in education in your homeschool.

First, observe your child to engage your child.

Who is this child right before me?

And how is she showing her interests, revealing her curiosities, and displaying her imagination?

I’ve seen my oldest daughter make mud patties and clay bricks in the backyard for days.

• She spent hours painting and repainting her nails.
• She spent hours wandering the backyard with a picnic blanket, dragging her sibling