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The Unschool Pursuit of French

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

The Old Montreal neighborhood where Emma & Riva attended the language immersion school

I believe there is something profoundly different about an internally motivated and self-driven pursuit of a body of knowledge, as compared to an externally imposed requirement to learn something, and in an educational venue not necessarily of ones choosing. I think this fact is lost on an education establishment that continues to provide essentially just one educational environment, which is an OSFA (one size fits all) set of conventional instructional schools.

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Posted by Cooper Zale, in Education 2 Comments »