Re: Reading ?
Pam Hartley
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(and done in schools and school-at-home families every day) to suck the joy
out of learning to read (or anything else), sometimes to the point where the
child simply refuses on every level to have anything to do with something
that is being made to be a torture.
It is also very likely that if an unschooled child lived somewhat isolated
in a non-reading family that also banned video games and television (because
there is so much reading involved in both those media outlets these days)
they would not learn to read.
Reading isn't Athena, springing full-sized from the head of Zeus in a ta-da!
overblown Greek romance. It's simply as natural as learning to ride a bike
in a bike-riding family, or learn to train a dog in a dog-training family,
or learn to cook in a family that eats their meals at home.
Pam
>From: [email protected]Reading isn't inevitable, lessons or no lessons. It is entirely possible
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [Unschooling-Discussion] Digest Number 3952
>Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2003, 11:51 AM
>
> but what about these adults who can't read? how did that happen, if
> reading is inevitable, lessons or no lessons?
(and done in schools and school-at-home families every day) to suck the joy
out of learning to read (or anything else), sometimes to the point where the
child simply refuses on every level to have anything to do with something
that is being made to be a torture.
It is also very likely that if an unschooled child lived somewhat isolated
in a non-reading family that also banned video games and television (because
there is so much reading involved in both those media outlets these days)
they would not learn to read.
Reading isn't Athena, springing full-sized from the head of Zeus in a ta-da!
overblown Greek romance. It's simply as natural as learning to ride a bike
in a bike-riding family, or learn to train a dog in a dog-training family,
or learn to cook in a family that eats their meals at home.
Pam