Home Schooling Testimonial

As I’ve been in the process of creating the business model for Creative Classroom Connections and the home-based learning supports that I’m able and willing to offer, I wanted to reach out to Albert Surjik, who has one of the brightest minds I’ve ever had the opportunity to tutor/mentor. And when I think back on it, he was really was the first person I had an opportunity to explore self-directed learning with.

When I first met Albert over a decade ago, he had just dropped out of high school, and his family was looking for some extra support for him in a developing homeschooling learning plan. I was just in the process of finishing off the last couple of classes of my Bachelor of Education degree from the University of Regina, feeling entirely convinced that my primary goal as an educator should be to spark the naturally creative and curious impulses that we all have to varying degrees and make learning fun, and interesting and enjoyable again.

Both Mark Twain and Grant Allan have been credited with the saying,

“Never let a (person’s) schooling interfere with their education.”

Albert provides an inspiring example of someone who, as a teenager, recognized that he could get more out of a self-directed home education learning program than he could from a regular school setting. He chose to make the best of it, and I think he has learned a lot along the way! He now manages and is a part-owner of the Float Now studio in Regina, SK. He is someone that I continue to hold a lot of respect for — for his uncanny ability to be independently driven towards his own research, design, and bringing fruition to just about anything he puts his heart and mind into.

Thanks for your testimonial and words of support, Albert! And I look forward to unplugging and booking in for a float at the beautiful Regina studio sometime soon.