Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Sharing knowledge
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In a message dated 9/27/01 9:31:47 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
was a teeenager and I would go out in England in the winter with a thin dress
on and high heel shoes in 40 degree weather and be freezing my bum off, my
mum would say "put a coat on your'll still look good when you get where you
are going, but you won't be cold"... Would I listen? Heck no... I needed to
experience it myself and then see it was a silly thing so that I can say to
my son when he's going out in his underwear to play on the playset in the
garden in the winter "it's cold honey don't you think you need to put some
clothes on?" and he can say "no it's not" and on and on and on.... Hopefully
I won't say that to my son and I will be more enlightened, that's the whole
idea of unschooling for me... but as I grew up I couldn't learn by others'
mistakes and there are very few people who can. We have to experience those
things for ourselves and then make decisions about whether a situation works
or not.
JMHO
Dawn
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dawn Falbe
Personal Development Coach
Relocational Astrologer
(520) 579-2646
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Path of Least Resistance is Inside of You
www.astrologerdawn.com
Enlightening women on how to live their Soul Purpose
"The people who get on in this world
are people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."-George
Bernard Shaw
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[email protected] writes:
> I want to help give new unschoolers a head start so they don't have to takeThat's what makes life the journey and not the destination. It's like when I
> as long to figure out easy ways as I did and some others did.
>
> Sandra
>
was a teeenager and I would go out in England in the winter with a thin dress
on and high heel shoes in 40 degree weather and be freezing my bum off, my
mum would say "put a coat on your'll still look good when you get where you
are going, but you won't be cold"... Would I listen? Heck no... I needed to
experience it myself and then see it was a silly thing so that I can say to
my son when he's going out in his underwear to play on the playset in the
garden in the winter "it's cold honey don't you think you need to put some
clothes on?" and he can say "no it's not" and on and on and on.... Hopefully
I won't say that to my son and I will be more enlightened, that's the whole
idea of unschooling for me... but as I grew up I couldn't learn by others'
mistakes and there are very few people who can. We have to experience those
things for ourselves and then make decisions about whether a situation works
or not.
JMHO
Dawn
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dawn Falbe
Personal Development Coach
Relocational Astrologer
(520) 579-2646
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Path of Least Resistance is Inside of You
www.astrologerdawn.com
Enlightening women on how to live their Soul Purpose
"The people who get on in this world
are people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."-George
Bernard Shaw
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[email protected]
In a message dated 9/27/01 1:12:28 PM, NumoAstro@... writes:
<< I couldn't learn by others'
mistakes and there are very few people who can. We have to experience those
things for ourselves and then make decisions about whether a situation works
or not. >>
True, but unless people have the knowledge of the possibility of unschooling
and the courage to try it, they won't live long enough to experience it
themselves. Kids' lives go quickly, and it's easy to miss information like
this out in the wide school-filled world. Then it's easy to experiment with
two or three different curriculae until the kid is too old to experience
child-like wonder.
It happens.
Sandra
<< I couldn't learn by others'
mistakes and there are very few people who can. We have to experience those
things for ourselves and then make decisions about whether a situation works
or not. >>
True, but unless people have the knowledge of the possibility of unschooling
and the courage to try it, they won't live long enough to experience it
themselves. Kids' lives go quickly, and it's easy to miss information like
this out in the wide school-filled world. Then it's easy to experiment with
two or three different curriculae until the kid is too old to experience
child-like wonder.
It happens.
Sandra