Pam Tellew

Another article in a college newspaper. This one's from University
of California Santa Cruz. I thought it was pretty positive. And
both education professors interviewed were positive about unschooling.

http://cityonahillpress.com/article.php?id=1037

One of my quotes got a little mangled though. She wrote: '
"Every once in awhile I get a bug in my head saying, 'Gosh, I don't
think I know that this is out there in the world,'" Tellew said. "I
started telling them about math and they didn't really care. Pushing
that kind of stuff is what gives people that resistance." She would
rather her children follow something that excites them. '

What I said was, "Every once in a while, I get a little bug in my
head saying, 'Gosh, I don't think they (my kids) know that this is
out there in the world.' Then I told her about how I'd recently been
on a little math jag of my own, learning about Fibonacci numbers for
the first time, and when I showed my kids they weren't interested at
the time, so I dropped it. My son thought the way it was written
made them sound anti math, which they aren't, just busy with
something else they cared more about at the moment.

Oh, and it wasn't exactly an unschooling camp-out where she
interviewed people but there were lots of unschoolers there.

But overall, a pretty good article. I loved that she quoted so many kids.

Pam

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