Having been greatly stimulated (and forced to reflect more seriously on what education actually means) by Roy Peachey’s book Out of the Classroom and into the World, about which I blogged on Monday, I caught up with the author to ask him a few questions.
Firstly and most important, what advice would he give to Catholic parents who feel daunted by their responsibility as “primary educators”? Roy corrects me, saying that he doesn’t think this role needs to be seen as “a daunting responsibility.” He expands, explaining that it will only seem so “if we think of education as a way of imparting information.” That, he is adamant, “is not what education is. It is fundamentally about relationships. Our children learn so much by just being with us. They learn what to value in life. We love them more than any educator ever can and that love makes us their best educators.”
