Corina Crane

Something struck me while reading the posts about is it unschooling or not (again!)

I call my self a buddhist. A lot of people call themselves Christian. But do you live up to all the ideals? No, you struggle and hope your getting it right. But I'm certainly not as good at it as Buddha, and I'm sure the Christians on this list aren't as good at it as Jesus was.

Yet we call ourselves whatever, because we believe in the end goal. We believe in the words. But that doesn't mean were perfect! We never will be perfect buddhists or christians, or whatever. So why do we have this need to be *perfect* unschoolers. As long as we agree on the goal and the method - can't we be human?

Corina (a struggling buddhist and unschooler trying to stay to the right path)



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In a message dated 4/12/02 1:37:59 PM, corina_crane@... writes:

<< So why do we have this need to be *perfect* unschoolers. As long as we
agree on the goal and the method - can't we be human? >>

The goal and the method aren't the belief.

You're Buddhist because something in the philosophy resonated with you,
because you believe something strongly enough to be associated with it.

There are people whose goal is for their children to grow up functional and
self-sufficient (that's just about all people, I suppose, excepting a few
possible lunatics of some sort I'd just as soon never meet). And there are
people who want to have that happen on it's own, somehow.

But unless they believe it really can happen and they take steps to assure
that it has a chance of happening, I don't think they're unschooling. Maybe
our "methods" without the philosophy and action will be neglect, in some
cases.

Sandra