Valuable article from The Virginia Gazette about the research of William and Mary Psychology professor Kyung Hee Kim on creativity.  It has good suggestions for how to foster children's creativity - one's all parents should try to implement ( Read more... )

This New York Times article reveals what good research shows actually works when studying. Result:

Moving locations and mixing up what you study. Not the usual advice! But very much in line with what goes on in a Montessori classroom!

I love what it said about cramming:

"Cognitive scientists do not deny that honest-to-goodness cramming can lead to a ( Read more... )

I just read about this new book from a researcher in the Positive Psychology movement, Todd Kashdan, called  Curious ?. Here's how they're describing it:

"Key ideas include:

• Focusing on happiness can actually hinder our ability to have a fulfilling life. 
• The central ingredient to creating a fulfilling life is curiosity
• All the good press has ( Read more... )

 "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire."

William Butler Yeats

“The secret of good teaching is to regard the child's intelligence as a  fertile field in which seeds may be  sown, to grow under the heat of flaming  imagination.  Our aim is not only to  make the child understand, and still  less to force him ( Read more... )

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