school vs. unschooling; nativity vs. turtles
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<<Maybe it's an oversimplification, but sometimes I think unschooling is not
all that different from school-y stuff, just in its pace and timing. Any
thoughts? >>
It's not the content so much as the method. When school is good, it's about
the real world!
When school is bad, it's repetitive over and over again (understandably for
the assembly line, but each kid sits through most explanations year after
year). When school is bad, it involves age-expectations, and labels of
"ahead," "behind" (in fancier terms often, with federal funding involved),
"differently abled".... I could go on, but I'm not going to.
Another difference between school and unschooling, as to content, is they
called a small sliver of the world 'all,' and we call all of a life's
learning 'some." While professionals are afraid unschoolers will fail to
cover "all" the material, we KNOW the best of their students 1) learned most
of what they know outside of school;
2) only were 'taught' the small packets of information the texbook publishers
designed to fit into semesters, units, weeks, lessons;
3) will forget most of what they regurgitate on the short-term-memory
exercises known as "tests";
4) will consider themselves finished learning at high school graduation,
unless they go to college (in which case see above).
<< The lego people farmed for weeks (closest thing to a diarama likely to
happen here!). My son drew pictures of farms (during church, but hey!).
But I never sat him down to do those things, he just did them. >>
One of my fondest memories is of putting out a creche scene one Christmas (a
Christian home-diarama) of Italian design and manufacture, about 5" high on
the adults, and made of hard plastic, like from the 1950's or 1960's.
I saw it for what it was.
Kirby and Marty saw it as what it was from their point of view: "Jesus
action figures"
One day I came in and there were two Ninja Turtles adoring Jesus, while a
king and a shepherd had gone off to help vanquish Splinter and the Foot Clan.
Sandra
all that different from school-y stuff, just in its pace and timing. Any
thoughts? >>
It's not the content so much as the method. When school is good, it's about
the real world!
When school is bad, it's repetitive over and over again (understandably for
the assembly line, but each kid sits through most explanations year after
year). When school is bad, it involves age-expectations, and labels of
"ahead," "behind" (in fancier terms often, with federal funding involved),
"differently abled".... I could go on, but I'm not going to.
Another difference between school and unschooling, as to content, is they
called a small sliver of the world 'all,' and we call all of a life's
learning 'some." While professionals are afraid unschoolers will fail to
cover "all" the material, we KNOW the best of their students 1) learned most
of what they know outside of school;
2) only were 'taught' the small packets of information the texbook publishers
designed to fit into semesters, units, weeks, lessons;
3) will forget most of what they regurgitate on the short-term-memory
exercises known as "tests";
4) will consider themselves finished learning at high school graduation,
unless they go to college (in which case see above).
<< The lego people farmed for weeks (closest thing to a diarama likely to
happen here!). My son drew pictures of farms (during church, but hey!).
But I never sat him down to do those things, he just did them. >>
One of my fondest memories is of putting out a creche scene one Christmas (a
Christian home-diarama) of Italian design and manufacture, about 5" high on
the adults, and made of hard plastic, like from the 1950's or 1960's.
I saw it for what it was.
Kirby and Marty saw it as what it was from their point of view: "Jesus
action figures"
One day I came in and there were two Ninja Turtles adoring Jesus, while a
king and a shepherd had gone off to help vanquish Splinter and the Foot Clan.
Sandra
Diane
I love this! Thanks for the forewarning...
:-) Diane
SandraDodd@... wrote:
:-) Diane
SandraDodd@... wrote:
> One of my fondest memories is of putting out a creche scene one Christmas (a
> Christian home-diarama) of Italian design and manufacture, about 5" high on
> the adults, and made of hard plastic, like from the 1950's or 1960's.
>
> I saw it for what it was.
>
> Kirby and Marty saw it as what it was from their point of view: "Jesus
> action figures"
>
> One day I came in and there were two Ninja Turtles adoring Jesus, while a
> king and a shepherd had gone off to help vanquish Splinter and the Foot Clan.
>
> Sandra
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In a message dated 4/30/02 6:44:08 AM, cen46624@... writes:
<< One day I came in and there were two Ninja Turtles adoring Jesus, while a
OMIGOSH!
I'm glad that came quoted back.
SHREDDER and the Foot Clan.
Splinter's a good guy!
So sorry. If Kirby were reading this he would be so ashamed of me. <g>
Sandra
<< One day I came in and there were two Ninja Turtles adoring Jesus, while a
> king and a shepherd had gone off to help vanquish Splinter and the FootClan. >>
OMIGOSH!
I'm glad that came quoted back.
SHREDDER and the Foot Clan.
Splinter's a good guy!
So sorry. If Kirby were reading this he would be so ashamed of me. <g>
Sandra