Method
The best methods evolve with experience, inspire with progress and result in an evolved self,
regardless of pursuit.
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Everyone likes a good rhythm. Styles may differ, but that constant beat that grounds us, that bass that moves us, it connects with our minds and our moods. Rhythm has a playfulness that makes work lighter, easier. Keeping pace is just natural. Rhythm in education can make it easier to keep moving, easier to stay grounded, easier to be playful when there are constants you just feel.
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Variety, being the spice of life, is just as important as rhythm. Lighting up the mind with new connections, variety keeps us engaged. Diverse subject matter can pique our curiosity. Diverse methods of interacting with that subject matter can expand our minds.
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Cross-reference experience and knowledge. Find and create underlying patterns. Sense and search out missing pieces. Hone accuracy and agility. Distinguish relevance and priority. Examine from new angles and scales. Invert the typical and settled. Track greatness and subtlety. Invent solutions and comedies.
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Employing a variety of methods while homeschooling equips the next generation with a repertoire of strategies and skills. The learning of common facts, formulas and communications is immensely useful; the training of a mind is greater still.
"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with
new materials."
-Helen Frankenthaler
To absorb knowledge is one thing, to make that knowledge your own, engage with it, toy with it, question it, employ it and consider the results. Then that knowledge has a story, a personal one, and it is yours.
"The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor."
-Christian Bovée