Do you constantly need to push and shove your child to do his or her assignments? Are you struggling with lack of motivation in your child?

Many parents and teachers don’t think a child can acquire an education without an external source of pressure that will compel them to do their studies.

But there is another way.

You see, every child has already an in-built learning machine that is designed to help them successfully complete their own growth and development. All parents have to do is assist, nourish and disciple the child during this natural learning process, and it will unfold all by itself.

True education can only happen when it is pursued by the student himself. That is how we were designed to learn.

Force will also teach its lessons, but they will be the wrong ones. And they are powerful to change a child’s disposition from exuberant passion for learning to utter lack of motivation.

Force is the number one motivation killer. It will teach your child:

• That learning is lifeless and boring
• That learning is what others require of you
• That fun starts where learning stops
• That I don’t have to learn in my free time, that is when I want passive entertainment to relax from my learning efforts
• I will only make an effort when it is required

I don’t only believe they can, I believe it’s their destiny.

Truly, children are born geniuses. All of them. As a matter of fact, every person you have ever met is a genius. We live in a world of geniuses. It is what we are here for.

Each little child is fashioned for greatness. And each one of them is called to impact this world for good and to become an effective leader for tomorrow’s generation.

Yes, greatness is not beyond the reach of any child.  And depending on the education they’ll receive, they will develop their genius to a higher or lesser degree.

That makes the goal of any form of education very simple. The word education comes from the Latin word educare, which means “to draw out.” True education will draw out a child’s genius. Period.

But what does that type of effective education look like? Throughout the history mankind this question has been answered in a myriad of different ways.

I personally believe that education cannot be put into a box. A good education allows the individual greatness of each child to emerge and develop. Therefore it looks very different from one child to the other.

Each one of them needs a tailor-made education to grow into what they were born to become.

We as parents have the responsibility to equip them with an education that will effectively prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of their generation.

So, how can we settle for anything less but the best education?

The world with the Internet is still a fairly new concept, but I think the change in the way many of us educate our children and ourselves is going to be enormous.

We probably cannot fathom yet what will happen with the invention of the personalized computer. Most of us have not realized the implication of having to our free disposal a tool in which you can type a word in a box and get immediate, relevant and up-to-date information about any subject under the sun. It’s called the World Wide Web.

Just think about it: How effective can education become when you have the exact relevant information you are looking for literally at the tips of your fingers? The Internet has made it possible.

Nowadays we are able to access in a few seconds any specific information we are looking for, therefore we can digest it much better, apply it immediately and learn much faster.

Opposed to traditional education, self-directed learning with the Internet allows for each individual to navigate his or her own path.

The truth is, if you love what you do and have the freedom to develop your unique God-given talents and gifts, you can be great at anything. And you have information in your head that other people would pay dearly for! 

No doubt, a person that has learned to be self-directed in his or her learning will gain a huge advantage. If you seriously want to learn about the power of self-directed learning, I invite you to go to http://www.Self-DirectedLearningForSuccess.com and you’ll get immediate access to my free e-book that will assist you in getting started.

For the sole true end of education is this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain. Dorothy Sayers

Human being have an extraordinary creative ability. Greatness is the purpose of each one of us, not the work of a few geniuses. It is in us. Sometimes you won’t see it, but it’s there.

We live in a world surrounded by geniuses.

But can you picture their greatness and potential? Are they receiving the education that is up to par with who they were born to become?

Many efforts are continually made to improve the current educational system. But the fact is that the only person who can fix education is the student himself. Students are the only true educators.

Great teaching inspires students to educate themselves. Historically, every other method of education has failed, because human beings were intricately designed to learn only by diligently, enthusiastically and effectively educating themselves.

The simple truth is: No one will receive what he needs to know from another person teaching him, unless he chooses to.

Good mentors can inspire you, or point you in a direction. If your wheel is stuck in the mud, they can give you a pull to get you going again. They can also refresh you.

But they can never provide real education for you. That is something each one of us has to acquire for himself.

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Once a child has discovered how to unleash the power of a self-directed learning process, he will be able to teach himself virtually anything he proposes to learn for the rest of his life.

Nevertheless, not every educational method nowadays has this result. Many teenagers, and even young adults, have not found a way of how to thoroughly enjoy learning and how to pursue their education with zeal.

On the contrary, many of them are bored with their education and have resigned to simply and dutifully comply with the requirements imposed on them by their parents and teachers.

What can we adults do to ignite that learning passion in our children?

I mean, any of us parents would love his or her child to be so enraptured by his learning process that we’d never have to press and push them anymore to accomplish their assignments.

And this is just where the answer is found.

Whose assignments? Who is really deciding what the child is going to learn about?

The secret to self-directed learning in our children is this: Impose requirements on the basic learning skills, language arts and math, and then give them the freedom to choose what area of their interest to use them in.

Yes, teach them how to read and write, and teach them their math. But view them as what they are: The necessary skills they’ll need to learn all the rest by themselves.

Here are some practical ideas of how you can do this:

• Start out your day, when their minds are fresh, with a block of “table time.” This should be a short period of language arts and math according to each child’s learning level.

• Then assign a block of time to read and research, but don’t assign content. Give them the freedom to choose what area of interest they are going to pursue.
  

• Don’t use textbooks, they are always boring and full of pre-digested content.

• If you want your child to become a self-directed learner, let him search for information and digest it himself. Then encourage him to write his own book about his favorite subject.

After a season of giving them more freedom with the content they are learning about, you will see that your children will start to enjoy learning, because you are allowing them to engage in a subject they are passionate about.