mamaaj2000

--- In UnschoolingDiscussion@yahoogroups.com, SandraDodd@a... wrote:
> http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/nursery-pre.htm

I like to read that site for crafts inspiration, but when you get to
the discussions of Legos and such, it seems like they are spending so
much energy worrying about what's good vs. bad that I get tense just
reading!

http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/legos.htm

People weigh in for and against Legos, but the controlling attitude
really jumps out at you.


--aj

SandraDodd@aol.com

In a message dated 8/9/04 10:24:07 AM, mamaaj2000@... writes:

<< http://www.waldorfhomeschoolers.com/legos.htm


People weigh in for and against Legos, but the controlling attitude

really jumps out at you. >>

Hey but aren't Lego manufactured in Denmark or some mondo-Germanic place?
Sheesh....

Maybe that proves it's more New-Age correctness than dusty old Aryan
mysticism. <g>

A quote from that Lego article:
-=-For me Lego has mainly straight forms and edges no curves and mixed forms
as found in nature. It seem that this is the main problem with it. As in a
computer you can only do what the soft ware and hard ware have already dictated
to the user.-=-

Sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't use a computer much, or who
doesn't write or do any computer art.

But then it was found on a website, taken from a discussion list of some
sort, where it was probably written.

(I wonder what she's thinking computers would/should do if they weren't
limited by software or hardware? They couldn't chop wood, or fly.)

Sandra