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The be all and end all of lists: this isn't it.
Neither is any other list.


<< << This list has, to me, appeared to be more of a general parenting
list. The volume of posts is remarkable, but few of them have
anything to do with unschooling. Maybe the name of the group should
be changed. >> >>

If you expect to get all you unschooling information from one place, that
would be about like expecting your child to learn all of history from one
book, or all of math from one book.

First order of business with unschooling is that you follow your interests.

SO! If you're interested in unschooling and this list is insufficient (as it
should be for anyone finding out about unschooling) you go to
www.unschooling.com and read the library and whatever of the archives seems
of interest. You can go to www.google.com and put in your favorite
buzzwords. You can go to http://sandradodd.com/unschooling and follow the
links. Just that would take weeks, I think, if you read each other file and
followed THEIR links.

Since people are being testy and blunt anyway, I wish to say that I don't
like it at all when people come and ask to be spoonfed unschooling. If it
truly is the first day they've ever heard of it, that's differerent, but if
they've been reading some and then want people to make housecalls (or at
least to send them everything they need to know by e-mail), that doesn't seem
to me to be a good candidate for an unschooling parent.

I guess I could call the library and ask them to pile up whatever they have
on calligraphy and bring it over to me, and hey, could you stop by the art
store and get me some pens and ink and paper? Perhaps for a very steep price
some cab driver would do that for me, meter running all the time.

But people can come FOR FREE and get more information in one day than we
could get ten years ago in a YEAR about unschooling. And yet they complain
that it's just what they expected, not the right color for them, too ithcy,
too direct, too vague, too general, too particular.

One source is plagiarism and three sources is research. That's an old school
saying.

I think three sources is kinda weak research! Ten sources read thoroughly
and carefully considered in light of all your own experience starts to be
real knowledge.

So there's no reason to change the name of this e-mail list. It's a function
and service of www.unschooling.com, which is sponsored by Home Education
Magazine. It does its job better than most lists I've been on. And it's
not the only unschooling list there, but I'm not willing to go to yahoo,
search for them and send them to anyone by e-mail.

One of the first things unschoolers with a computer need to find out how to
do is to go to a website and search. Maybe the first website can be
www.google.com .

My rant is ended.

Sandra