 You, not Them
In our modern society, whenever education is the subject, we always want to talk about the kids. We care about them, and we know their education is important, but we also find that it's easier to talk about their education than to improve our own.
In reality, you are unlikely to pass on to your children a better education than you have earned yourself, no matter how much you push them or how good the teachers are in their private school. Children tend to rise to the educational level of their parents, and maybe a little above if their parents have shown them that this is important. The most effective way to ensure the quality of their education is to consistently improve your own.
The beauty of this self-evident truth is that you don't have to be all that far ahead of them to effectively lead out; they can even pass you up once you are firmly on a committed path of self-education. Your trajectory will propel them, even as the advantages of their youth and the time available to them allow them to achieve amazing amounts in a short period of time. Don't forget that you also have the advantage of maturity and life experience that enrich your learning in ways that they can't approximate. Just make the commitment and lead out. You be the lever that moves their world.
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Do you know what today is?
A person's a person, no matter how small!
Poet, philosopher and educator: what does Dr. Seuss have to do with today?
Enough concrete to build a 4ft. sidewalk how many times around the equator?
Speaking of keys, what did this one see by the dawn's early light?
What's a "horticulturist?" (And what does it have to do with this day in history?)
And you thought last week was about Washington. Turns out, he wasn't just President of the United States. (What else? And how does it relate to this day in history?)
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