Luz Shosie and Ned Vare

on 8/7/02 8:39 AM, [email protected] at
[email protected] wrote:

Leslie writes:
> My problem is that I was raised with the idea that if you start a course of
> some kind, you'd better finish it (or else...!).

Yours is not really an "unschooling" problem, but a common sense problem and
an unlearning problem for you. Your upbringing, in this case, was rigid,
insensitive, simple-minded. It is a familiar story, however, when parents
make dumb requirements of their kids...the old story about finishing what
you start, no matter what, even if it's stupid and boring -- like school.

If you want to quit smoking, do you smoke the rest of the pack just because
you've paid for them? Does that somehow comfort you that your money wasn't
wasted? If money is tight, maybe the kid could have simply watched the class
and later tried out the carries. The instructor sounds like a school
teacher on summer break.

Ned Vare