Pam Hartley

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>Subject: [Unschooling-Discussion] Digest Number 3916
>Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2003, 11:03 AM
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> If reading is natural, then wouldn't a written language be natural?
> What about the Australian aboriginals who survived thousand of years
> without "inventing" one?


Every time we want to say, "Learning to read is natural", we could instead
say, "Learning to do what the other members of the tribe/family unit are
doing is a natural desire of the young of our species, ergo, if the
tribe/family unit places importance on reading by engaging in said activity
and filling their huts/homes with the materials and tools necessary for said
activity, the young will naturally and artlessly wish to engage in said
activity as well, and will read."

It seems easier to just say, "Learning to read is natural" and leave the "to
children living in our reading homes and societies" as obvious.

But maybe that's just me. ;)

Pam, Friendly Giant, LOL

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pamhartley@... writes:


It seems easier to just say, "Learning to read is natural" and leave
the "to
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> children living in our reading homes and societies" as obvious.
>
> But maybe that's just me. ;)
>
> Pam, Friendly Giant, LOL
>

Fellow Amazon here, lol

Only 5 feet 11 1/2 inches, hehehe. I won't give up the half inch.

I get what you mean, of course.
I like to pick natural apart from cultural. I think it's important to
discern.
My thought is this: If reading wasn't thought so automatically to be a
"natural thing", maybe kids who struggle with it wouldn't feel so badly when it
doesn't come easily to them?

~Aimee


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