Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homeschooling and unschooling
Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 08:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
>
>
> > >Is this something children will automatically
> learn
> > growing up in an environment where nobody values
> > learning?
>
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>
> Is walking something children automatically learn
> growing up in an
> evnironment where nobody particularly values
> walking?
>
> I believe that would be a 'yes'.
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.
>
> Unschoolers hold that all human beings want to learn
> and are predisposed to
> learn unless that proclivity is actively beaten out
> of them.
Children want to learn, but they are indiscriminate
about what they want to learn.