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I sent my last post without having seen the second request for cessation.

I'll quit.
It's the continuation of the planetary death, sky is falling discussion from
a few weeks ago, but it has turned into an attack on me now and is neither
productive nor entertaining for anyone.

One reason I bother to argue things that involve critical thought is that
unschooling depends on openmindedness and the willingness to allow knowledge
to change inside us and in the world around us. Some of the things we were
taught in school (the adult-mom-homeschoolers who went ten or twenty or
thirty years ago) is no longer true, whether politically or scientifically or
whether the tradition has just changed (as in cases of grammar, punctuation,
etiquette, typing). A platypus is a mammal. A panda is a bear again (used
to be; wasn't; is). The order of planets isn't as simple as I learned from
my cousin, in third grade, in a little chant about "the planets that live
near the stars." Columbus did NOT "know exactly what to do," it's in there
because it's ressuring and simple and it rhymes.

I was defending inquiry and change. I was being attacked personally.
Help from others to clarify the arguments would have been appreciated,
instead of "take it outside."

Sandra

Juli

>>>unschooling depends on openmindedness and the
willingness to allow knowledge to change inside us and
in the world around us.<<<

To me, it seemed to be a determination from all
involved, from the very beginning, to be RIGHT. Or to
argue for the sake of argument.

>>>Help from others to clarify the arguments would
have
been appreciated, instead of "take it outside."<<<

I could have hopped in there and clarified the correct
way to spell Moliere, if I wanted so badly to be right
about something or wanted to argue. But there was a
lot of sniping and bickering and negative energy
coming from that discussion, and it just kept evolving
into bickering over new things. Why would anyone want
to get drawn into that? I can just see it turning from
leeches to me insisting I've taught french and I know
accent grave goes over the e, but my computer doesn't
have accents, and then someone else could inform me
that I'm just too ignorant to know how to make my
computer do accent grave by using control-something,
and then someone else could insist that they weren't
talking about THE Moliere at all, but about Chuck
Molier, president of Podunk University and if I wasn't
such a turd I would have realized that, and here's a
link to Podunk U so I can stop being such a moron, and
on and on and on.

Juli, who's laughing and hopes you are, too.



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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.--Alexandre Dumas

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