As Indians we used grandfathers to teach much to our children of the Indian way. We trusted the grandfather, their knowledge and understanding of our culture and their patient way of teaching.
A grandfather taught many children from different families at the same time.
No Indian child was taught either alone or just with their brothers and sisters, for this would have deprived them of so much learning and the experience and joy of learning and discovering with others.
In so many education systems on earth, especially those mandated by government, they teach information but not culture, failing to understand the need to share and integrate.
For those who home school, their problems are even greater, for they are limiting their child in both knowledge and culture.
In the need for Governments to homogenise education they have forgotten that schools are positioned in communities, each with a different culture, which needs to be shared and taught as the primary learning with information following that.
From my guide Crazy Horse through Ian Rogers Director Sphinx Spiritual
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