If you've ever tried to take what you've been learning and use it to create something of your own,

you know what a powerful practice that can be. It's easy to watch someone or to read something.

I think, okay, I've got it. Yep, I can do that. But then when you try it for yourself,

that's when you realize exactly what you have grasped and what still needs some improvement.

Creating something from what you have learned is a powerful tool for self-education, and

it's one that you can easily incorporate into your home school.

Here's how.

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We've been looking at the six tools for self-education. These are the tools

that will equip your student to keep learning for himself over a lifetime. If you've

missed any of the episodes in this series, check the description for links. Today we want

to look at the last tool, create.

This is the tool that brings together all that has been learned with the other tools.

The practice of creating means making something by combining various parts into a coherent

whole.

So what your student has learned through observation, reading, telling,

recording, and memorizing can all come together in the act of creating.

When your student synthesizes or brings together all that he has learned and uses it to create

something of his own, he is encouraged

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