Light has been doing so awesome on the violin. He began lessons a year and a half ago, but started actually "playing" the violin a bit over a year ago. Most days he remembers to practice himself, and he has developed a great relationship with his violin instructor. She has gotten really good at letting him run with a musical idea, then reigning him back in for the lesson. He makes so many musical intuitive leaps while he is learning a song that it can be hard to keep up with him (he moves at the speed of light....remember!) She has commented several times on his passion and enthusiasm!
He is finishing up the Suzuki book 1 and is so excited to begin book 2. He really loves music and can often be heard running around the house humming the latest song he is working on. This summer he learned 3 Minuets by Bach, and Minuet 2 is his favorite. Enjoy hearing him play.
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- Raising my son, Light (nicknamed as such for the light and joy he brings to everyone he meets....and for the speed at which he lives.....), is such a joy. I never know where our days will take us and keeping up with him is quite a journey! Unschooling is our way of living and interacting with this wonderful world! I am following the leader, and he moves at the speed of light!
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
--Galileo
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
--George Bernard Shaw
When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.
--Stephen Hawking
Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.
-- Anonymous
IT IS, IN FACT, NOTHING short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly.
--Albert Einstein
1 comment:
Bravo Bravo! Excellent violin performance! I really enjoyed listening to you play Luke.
Love and hugs,
Aunt Shannon
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