Rather, they propose that children learn best when they are left to their own devices to learn through natural life experiences (with the parent being involved in the creation of various learning scenarios). Unschooler's hold that such instruments of traditional schooling are not conducive to a student's utmost learning, and that the removal of such educational features represents a method that allows each student to discover their desire to learn from within. ... The process becomes quite different when students are forced to learn through processes that stifle their creativity and ...

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They should feature a variety of cooperative tasks which keep together the same combination of students across most of the curriculum over a full year or more and promote the students all working intensively at a major's or area of study's goal. Not only with students, but also with professors. Many of course, work diligently with the set conditions, but that is difficult, for a student who is answerable to the large variety of authorities they are associated with, administering the fragmented fields of knowledge and creating tiresome material without incentive, or taking a good d...

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At the beginning of the Renaissance, humanist educators revived the study of the classics and humanities to help students attain salvation. ... These Italian humanist views were echoed by northern Christian humanists such as Desiderus Erasmus who wrote in his book On the Art of Learning that students should study the classics because "the whole of attainable knowledge lies therein." ... Despite this emphasis on the pagan classics, a Renaissance education was designed to help students acquire knowledge so that they could attain salvation. ... During the Renaissance, the main purpose of educat...

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