Re: Unschooling (was Eminem)
Pam Hartley
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working. It may be that that is the age she was ready to learn, and there's
nothing wrong with it, nor any reason she couldn't and didn't learn a great
deal as a non-reader.
Did your brother's former wife ever say what her mother did do instead of
what she didn't? Neither the library nor the museum is the deal-breaker for
unschooling "success" and maybe with six kids and a rich home environment
(?) the woman felt life was interesting enough already. <g>
I'm not trying pick at nits, I just always wonder a little at how factual
the myths of wolf-unschooling families are.
Was your brother's first wife an uninteresting person? And if so, can we
blame it on unschooling, or was it her personality to begin with.
I'm a ridiculous eager-to-learn optomist despite schooling. I imagine there
are people who are natural plodders and pessimistic, even with the benefit
of unschooling.
Pam
>From: [email protected]Not reading until 14 isn't an automatic indicator that unschooling isn't
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-dotcom] Digest Number 2292
>Date: Mon, Aug 26, 2002, 11:39 PM
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> On the other hand, my brother's first wife was unschooled and she couldn't
> read until she was 14. Her mother didn't do anything to try to make their
> lives interesting (like trips to libraries or museums or whatever.) 5 of her
> kids had no problem this way but my sis in law did.
working. It may be that that is the age she was ready to learn, and there's
nothing wrong with it, nor any reason she couldn't and didn't learn a great
deal as a non-reader.
Did your brother's former wife ever say what her mother did do instead of
what she didn't? Neither the library nor the museum is the deal-breaker for
unschooling "success" and maybe with six kids and a rich home environment
(?) the woman felt life was interesting enough already. <g>
I'm not trying pick at nits, I just always wonder a little at how factual
the myths of wolf-unschooling families are.
Was your brother's first wife an uninteresting person? And if so, can we
blame it on unschooling, or was it her personality to begin with.
I'm a ridiculous eager-to-learn optomist despite schooling. I imagine there
are people who are natural plodders and pessimistic, even with the benefit
of unschooling.
Pam
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In a message dated 8/27/02 8:12:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
pamhartley@... writes:
I know her mother did get very sick when she was about 10 and the two
youngest had the hardest time learning new things. I don't know if her mom
even knew there was such a thing as "unschooling." We as kids thought they
had the best mom ever to such an extent that my mom was a bit jealous. It
must have been fun but now 17 yrs later I can't really remember what we did
there.
Tanya
mom to Andrew Jordan 4/1/00 and Eli Hunter 10/29/01
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within
himself
--Galileo
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pamhartley@... writes:
> I'm not trying pick at nits, I just always wonder a little at how factualI don't think you are picking and it has given me some things to think about.
> the myths of wolf-unschooling families are.
>
> Was your brother's first wife an uninteresting person? And if so, can we
> blame it on unschooling, or was it her personality to begin with.
I know her mother did get very sick when she was about 10 and the two
youngest had the hardest time learning new things. I don't know if her mom
even knew there was such a thing as "unschooling." We as kids thought they
had the best mom ever to such an extent that my mom was a bit jealous. It
must have been fun but now 17 yrs later I can't really remember what we did
there.
Tanya
mom to Andrew Jordan 4/1/00 and Eli Hunter 10/29/01
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within
himself
--Galileo
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