Learning without Boundaries

I love home education and the curiosity it fosters in children. Oliver has discovered Ghandi and Mandela on a deeper level and he has made a connection between the two. Watching his excitement and interest in the discovery that both were lawyers and both fought oppression, one with peace and one with militancy, both were non sectarian and both were imprisoned.

The questions Oliver asks are so well thought out and indicative of curiosity to what he has just discovered. The way he has learnt to read literature and text of any form is enquiring rather than rote.

Oliver is not blinded by others opinions or ideas, he looks for the facts and knits the rest together for himself and he goes on to form his own opinions and then questions others opinions.

At 9 years old he is demonstrating a natural love of learning that I doubt he would have achieved in a school setting.

How Oliver made the link between the two characters of Mandela and Ghandi fascinates me but also fills me with joy that he is thinking beyond when he thinks about and discovers any topic. He is making links for himself between things he is learning and things he is newly discovering. 

He is learning about an interconnected world that is complex and hard for even adults to understand and decipher.

I feel like I am growing a little scholar but I hope he heeds my warning that it is about what you do with the information you learn and not how much information you learn.