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That was perfect!

Thank you!

Kelly


In a message dated 5/1/2002 12:41:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, dwaynf@...
writes:
> --- In AlwaysLearning@y..., SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 4/30/02 2:35:43 PM, dwaynf@u... writes:
> >
> > << Is it possible to lead a horse to unschooling?>>
> >
> > If you advertise "WATER" in a way horses can understand, it needs
> to be
> > useable water in a form they can access.
>
>
> I suppose in the end (I know I am flogging that poor horse metaphor)
> if the horse is thirsty enough and the water potable he/she will
> drink. The real question, I suppose is whether he/she will notice
> the oily sheen on the top of the water refracting the light into
> rainbows, or the bugs walking ever so delicately on the surface
> tension,, or the little plant growing just under the place where the
> water has managed to rust through and slowly drips out, or the way
> the welding was done on the trough, or how if his/her nose is under
> the water when he/she exhales bubbles are made, or the bird flying
> overhead and the cool way its poop drifts down, faster than it looks
> like it should, but still responding to the wind.
>
> The problem with unschooling is that it isn't a means to an end. If
> you unschool you aren't doing it so that your children will read and
> write. You aren't doing it so that they will eventually learn to
> turn off the television on their own. You are doing it because the
> process is more important than the end. Or because unschooling is
> the end and the beginning and the whole shebang.
>
> And I don't know how it is possible to prevent people from believing
> that unschooling is a means to an end.
>
> Schuyler


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