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7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Learning Process
Episode 25
What is a teacher? What is teaching?
According to Gregory, the art of education — that is, teaching — is two-fold:
Teaching is the art of training. Tea…9 years, 8 months ago
Cheerful Chore Challenge
Episode 24
We moderns tend to compartmentalize our lives, thinking of what we do – and who we are as we do them – as unrelated segments and pieces. So there eas…
9 years, 8 months ago
The Law of the Teaching Process
Episode 23
This, claims Gregory, is the most widely recognized rule among good teachers. Although there may be times to disregard this law — when time is of the…
9 years, 9 months ago
Be a happy homemaker.
Episode 22
Many of us are task-driven. We want to see things done, accomplished, finished. This is what the world tells us is productivity. In this view, homema…
9 years, 9 months ago
7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Lesson
Episode 21
Gregory begins with a defense of his position that children possess the innate ability to think, which I will simply assume and not summarize. If you…
9 years, 9 months ago
Clean House with the End in Mind
Episode 20
If you’re like me, you try – at least occasionally – to become better, more effective, more competent in your roles and responsibilities at home. And…
9 years, 9 months ago
7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Language
Episode 19
Gregory speaks in this chapter of language as a vehicle of instruction, an instrument of learning, and a storehouse of knowledge. Briefly, he means t…
9 years, 9 months ago
A reasonably clean house
Episode 18
Have you yet discovered Auntie Leila at Like Mother, Like Daughter? She has a great series called The Reasonably Clean House. I have a weakness for r…
9 years, 9 months ago
7 Laws of Teaching: The Law of the Learner
Episode 17
Summary of Law 2: The learner must attend with interest to the material to be learned.
A learner – which is what our children are supposed to be – can…
9 years, 9 months ago
What novels taught me about cleaning house
Episode 16
Housework seemed like a stupid waste of time.
And I hated wastes of time and stupidity, so I triply hated housework.
I was torn between wanting to be a…
9 years, 9 months ago