"An environment-based education movement- at all levels of education- will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to a wider world” - Richard Louv
We have found so much inspiration from books and podcasts. Here are some of our favorites.
Mixed-Aged Classrooms Article by Andrew Pudewa
“Consequently they are able to teach and learn from one another in a natural condition, where seniority and rank are clear, responsibilities commensurate with ability, individual interests and talents can be nurtured, and each can learn at an appropriate pace.”
“Any natural place contains an infinite reservoir of information, and therefore the potential for in exhaustible new discoveries.”
“Why shouldn’t quiet be strong? And what else can quiet do that we don’t give it credit for?”
“The more high tech our lives become, the more nature we need”- Richard Louv, quoted in this book