What is Slow Learning?
~unschooling~ ~homeschooling~ ~wildschooling~ ~freeschooling~ I couldn't identify with any of the labels above. Perhaps the word "school" was in all of them. We learn but not in school. And we take our time, with more misses than hits and loads of down time. "To me, ‘slow learning’ is a basic human need – and a basic human right. It is so much more than just doing things more slowly. It is a mindset that can reshape every aspect of education. Slow learning honours the pace and rhythms of each child. It promotes calm reflection. It encourages you to go down rabbit holes, take wrong turns, play with ideas, change your mind and then change it again. Slow learners are at ease in the rich, liminal space between knowing and not knowing. They challenge received wisdom. A slow learner knows there is no such thing as a stupid question. Slow learning prizes the journey over the destination, hard questions over easy answers, understanding over remembering..." Read more ...