Marc Bobro (mbobro@anselm.edu)
Sun, 1 Apr 2001 13:47:15 -0400 (EDT)
John--My daughter learned to read on her own. She treats learning to read,
music, and math very much the same as she treats dressing up, playing
outside by herself or with friends, and doing projects. She loves to do
all these things. We haven't forced her to do any of these. We read to
her. She wanted to do it on her own. We play music. She wanted to do it
too. We are involved in a co-op where we use and talk about math when
figuring out splits. She wants to know what that is all about. I'm not
sure how she got interested in dressing up. She doesn't watch TV, but she
does have alot of friends. From what I can ascertain, all of this is
largely true of her 'unschooled' friends, too. Does this count as
evidence? Well, it certainly wouldn't merit a federal research grant. But
it works for me and my wife. Also, we've been influenced philosophically
by Tolstoy, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Holt, Freire, among others. Much of
what they say makes sense. But I sympathize with you. Philosophy of
education is a tough issue. Marc
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, John Axtell wrote:
> My point is that I am asking if anyone has seen evidence that a child, with
> no suggestions from a parent or other authority figure, actually stops
> creative playing and hits an academic subject?
>
> John
>
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