Recommended Homeschooling Classes, Summer and Fall 2008 and ongoing
Classes are held at the EIE Resource Center unless otherwise indicated: 2640 S. Myrtle Ave.Monrovia, CA 91016 (626) 821-0025. Some courses may also be offered online.
Many classes are ongoing with open enrollment. Please contact the individual teacher for enrollment questions, and online class availability.
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Art Classes for Homeschoolers
Far from neglecting the arts in favor of core subjects, art classes at EIE explore subjects rarely seen in public school. Keyboard Music Theory for example, is not just another piano class. Taught by a credentialed college instructor, this course covers not just the basics of musical notation, but hands-on harmony and musicianship. Students learn to play what the hear and imagine.
- Keyboard Music Theory
- Beginning Ceramics
- Perspective Drawing
- Theater/Acting
- Model Making
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Homeschooling in Action
Children grow up believing that life is like school, with every question having an answer in the back of the book. Maturity consists in recognizing that life is a continuing series of multiple choice questions with the answers torn out of the back of the book.
-Sydney Harris
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TAUGHT
We are taught to live,
we are
taught to feel.
We are taught to conform and conceal.
We are taught so well
what we
ought to feel
that we cannot feel what we feel.
- Piet Hein "Grooks"
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The majority of parents feel affection for their children, and this sets limits to the harm they do them. But education authorities have no affection for the children concerned; at best, they are actuated by public spirit, which is directed towards the community as a whole, and not merely towards the children; at worst, they are politicians engaged in squabbles for plums
- Bertrand Russell