J Salicos

Tracy, I think tonight you're "full" of wisdom! Thanks
for your thoughts!
Jill



--- Tracy Oldfield <Tracy@...-online.co.uk>
wrote:
> Sorry to hear about your troubles, Marcie. I don't
> pray, but will be thinking about you.
>
> I'm not sure where I stand about the whole maths
> thing, why is it necessary to think about things in
> subjects? Arithmetic, which a lot of folk see as
> maths, tends to be something which people either get
> or don't, which is why we have calculators. But
> that doesn't mean that people who can't add can't
> think about the dimensions of things, measure
> things, count notes to play music. Not being able
> to spell well doesn't mean that someone can't write
> beautiful poetry, it means they need a spell-checker
> or an editor. Not being able to write neatly
> doesn't mean that someone can't write fascinating
> articles for magazines, it means they use a
> word-processor. Not being able to tell the time
> doesn't mean that one can't understand why the Jews
> were sent to concentration camps in our recent
> history, or that dinosaurs are extinct, in our
> long-distant past.
>
> This is another big part of unschooling, being able
> to recognise the ways we learn best, being able to
> recognise our talents and using those talents to get
> where we want to be (even to figure out where we
> want to be, which is probably much more difficult
> :-) )
>
> ooooh, I'm full of it tonight :-)
>
> Tracy
>
>

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