Homestead mailing list

[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >That might be true if there were such a world, but we
> know there is such a thing.  
> Walking is a basic natural need, reading is not.

But learning is.  In a society where everyone meditates, children naturally 
learn to meditate without being "taught".  In a society where reading is the 
norm, reading is necessary to participate in the adult world, children learn 
to 
read without being taught.  I am not being theoretical here, this is an 
observed fact.  Viewed from the unshoolers point of view, the only children 
who 
don't learn to read are the ones actively prevented from doing so.

> 
> >Children want to learn, but they are indiscriminate
> about what they want to learn. 

You have, VanDell, the artifical paradigm of "subjects" in mind.  That is a 
wholy artificial constuct of the educational industry.  Natural learners (ie 
anyone but the schooled) have no such false focus.

Let me assure you that children are most discriminate about what they learn.  
 </HTML>