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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homeschooling and unschooling
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:54:45 -0700 (PDT)


--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

>
> > >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.

Reality check reading is necissary in this society and
there are plenty who aren't learning.

I am not being
> theoretical here, this is an
> observed fact.

Observed by who. By anyone who is objective? How
many thousand examples, if you haven't observed a
sizable population you can't be sure.


> > >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 paradigm may be in your mind but it isn't in
mine. Please confine yourself to the truth.

Van Dell





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