"Pediatricians say kids need recess during school"
Whoa! No way! Stop the presses! This is big news!
Pfft.
Seriously, this is common sense and shouldn't need to be said out loud.
Children need time for free play.
Lots of it. And adults would be surprised how much of that time would be spent in educational pursuits, given the freedom and resources.
If kids don't learn that learning is living, that it's exciting to follow their own curiosity, we are going to have more depressed children and bullies.
If I could say something to the administrators in charge of our current education system, it would be this:
Schedule LESS.
Test LESS.
Spend your money on toys for the classrooms through high school. Then let the kids loose to share and collaborate with a little guidance here and there from the adult in the room.
That's it.
We'd have more learning, more invention, and less wasted time trying to control the uncontrollable.
Quote from the article:
"The cognitive literature indicates that children are exactly as we are as adults. Whenever they're performing a complicated or complex task, they need time to process the information," said Murray, a professor at Ohio State University in Columbus.
"Kids have to have that time scheduled. They're not given the opportunity to just get up and walk around for a few minutes," he added.
They're not given the opportunity to just get up and walk around... so kids have to have that time scheduled.
Think about that.
One more reason to homeschool.
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