“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.” Albert Einstein The risk one runs when being a “question-asker” is that you might realize that the answers you thought were true, aren’t. In other words, “knowing” the answer makes people disinclined to question their answers. The world is then divided into right and wrong answers. New solutions are less likely found, because believing one is right prevents one from seeing something newly…
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Travel Opens & Broadens Hearts, Minds & Eyes
During our two-year home school adventure we had the opportunity to take a few trips. What we discovered and learned on these trips we integrated into our lessons when we arrived home. One of our biggest adventures took us to Boston where after walking across the cobblestones of American history, we took advantage of being on the east coast to fly to England where we journeyed by rail to York (where both Romans and Vikings lived). We walked atop the old Roman wall that encircles the city and then had fun traversing York’s snickelways (narrow alleys and walkways) to uncover numerous historical sites and stories. We traveled to the west…
