vivrh

WOW Mary that is a neat story. I had a memory when you were talking about your Dad. I remember being able to figure out math problems, I think addition, without taking the steps REQUIRED. I remember my teacher telling me that the problem was wrong though the answer was right because I did not follow the STEPS! That may be why I dont like math to this day, because I dont want to do it "wrong". How awful, I have always carried this fear that I am doing it wrong. That may be why! Ok- dont laugh everyone- major epiphany going on here! :-)
God bless
Vivian
Mom to three Happy little Monkeys
Austin 10/31/93 Sarah 8/28/95 Emmalee 8/15/00
And loving wife to Randy

**If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
-Anatole France***


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From: zenmomma *
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Answering people




>>My brother almost didn't graduate high school, from all his f's in
English. He skipped English to go to the computer lab and play with
computers. Fortunately my sister tutored him that last six months of
prison, I mean high school, so he was set free, I mean graduated.>>

This was my Dad! Well, except that they didn't have computer lab in 1939.
;-) But he also had loads of trouble in school due to poor English grades.
And they'd also mark his math papers wrong, or worse failed for cheating,
becasue he didn't show his steps when he solved problems.

This man definitely dreams in numbers. I wouldn't recognize his house if he
didn't have long strings of numbers listed on papers on various desk tops
and counters throughout the house. He hated his one year in Cooper Union
College and went on to become an Electrical Engineer on his own. He told me
that the schools step by step process didn't make sense to him. He had to
make sense of the numbers on his own.

Now, the best part of the story follows. This man who failed every English
class, who hated to read, who swore he couldn't write or spell, has written
a book. When he retired he became one of those guys who does geneology. He
does nothing but read, write, research and use his beloved numbers
practically every day. He wrote a book on his findings and they put it in
his local library for other researchers to use. He is just my best example
of *they'll learn it because they need it and have an interest*.

Life is good.
~Mary

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