“Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.”     W. B. Yeats

Well here I am finally starting a blog!

My head is swamped with ideas about education, life and learning and so I hope to use this space as somewhere to share some of these things I have been pondering.

Our family made the big decision to start homeschooling our children over a year ago.  This involved taking our eldest two out of the school they were attending and so inevitably we have had thousands of questions since from everyone around us.

“Why would you do that?”

“I could never do that!”

“How did you make that decision?”

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