LEARNING BEYOND SCHOOLING IN IPOH

Join us for our talks on HOME SCHOOLING and how to bring out our children's true potential

July 5, 2008 (Ipoh)

Morning 9.00am - 12.00pm

Venue: Seri Malaysia Hotel Jalan Sturrock, Off Jalan Tambun, 30350 Ipoh.

Admission FREE To confirm your attendance, please email beyond.schooling@gmail.com  and state the number of people coming (with names).

Many thanks to host and organizers:Kelab Bakti Gunung Keledang, PERAK

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What is homeschooling?  
 
(picture by China Press)

To homeschool is to take responsibility of your child/ren’s learning because parents want to assume a bigger role in the education of their children. We want children to learn naturally – meaning, that they are able to use their naturally inquisitive and full of wonder kind of minds to explore and learn about the world around them. To do this, parents must view  and value their children with love and respect and trust them to learn with all their physical as well as mental senses. We must give them space to express themselves through movements, art, music, songs and poems, whichever that attracts them most. We must allow them to speak their minds and say what is in their hearts.  
 
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Check out the China Press Article HERE

(Family at our home library. This picture made our library look really big and impressive. Picture by ChinaPress)

Homeschooling is featured on China Press today (12th May 2008) perhaps for the first time in a chinese newspaper. This is a well-written piece, depicting a positive picture of learning from home (and the pictures are well angled too!).

Unlike the earlier piece on an English newspaper, this piece was conceptualized and brought to fruition with out bringing on perceived negative notions or getting views from educational experts who are not well informed about home education. It beautifully captures the spirit and joy of homeschooling because the writer, editor and photographer were open minded about it and were not out to prove anything to anybody. For that we congratulate and thank the editorial team who did the story.

Thank you for a story well written! We hope more Chinese-speaking families would jump on the bandwagon of homeschooling for a more holistic experience of learning and living!

Our family appearing in May 11,2008's NST (picture source NST) in the article on homeschooling.

picture source by www.NST.com.my

If you have not picked up today's NST (May 11, 2008), there is feature on homeschooling. Check out:

Home schooling: In the comfort of their home (also appeared in the Red Orbit Knowledge network here)

Home schooling: More patient and less competitive

Home schooling: It's a privilege for those who meet criteria

It is interesting how uninformed education experts are, for in the past 20 years or so, the only thing that academics harp on which they view as "faulty" with homeschooling was the (apparent) lack of "socialization". If they have done their research well, they will find that homeschoolers perform much better socially and academically - studies are abundant. 

However, this article was motivated by the fact that homeschooling created a sensation when Sufiah Yusof turned into a prositute. Like regular schoolers don't become prostitutes?

While the Ministry of Education deem it a privilege for parents to be granted rights to home school, one must also remember that as government servants, these officials are given privilege from parents and citizens to design and execute education policies, and at this point, to many Malaysians, confidence in the education system and its process leaves much to be desired.

Read more in "Educating our children – a privilege or a right?"