Objective

The objective of Learning Curves is to support your objective - if your objective is to incorporate critical thinking and intellectual skill building into a natural and child-directed, family-friendly, learning experience.

This site is for the family who values learning and critical thinking skills and recognizes that education is part of our natural human development and can be incorporated very organically into our daily lives.

If you are from the school of thought that a child must be rigorously drilled in the mechanics of academic subject matter, then tested to measure their skill then this blog is not for you. If you are from the school of thought that a child should not be ‘taught’ anything at all but simply left to live as they wish and absorb only what they wish, then this blog is not for you. In fact, if you are from any ‘school’ of thought, then this site is not for you.

This site is for those of us who prefer to keep schooling out of our lives and who recognize that a child’s healthy growth require a a balance of spiritual, physical and intellectual development and that nurturing these are simply a natural part of parenting and family life.


Because critical skill building is very natural, it makes sense to take a more natural approach. The goal is to procure a valuable and intellectually skillful education in a way that embraces and celebrates the natural world in which we live, the natural patterns of our every day lives, and that utilizes our own particular skills, talents, passions, desires and curiosities.