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There Is No Uncaring In Unschooling
"He'd fooled us. He'd been learning all along--we just hadn't been able to see it because it didn't follow from our "teaching." It came from doing, sharing, and observing, from osmotically absorbing what was around him. I recalled that he once said to Mark, who was giving him snowboard instruction, "Dad, would you stop trying to teach me and just let me learn?"
~Deborah Sutton from Three Frog Nights (Mothering Magazine, May/June 2009)
4 comments:
Hmmm. I have to wonder where this comes from? Sly commentary or a message to someone(s)?
Whatever it is, I like your deep thoughts.
Maybe not so sly commentary? Just made me think of blogs...
Ah. ????? More please.
That strikes me. I think and I wonder. But then I think, I wonder, which words shall I think about?
microscopic carelessness. I love that. What book is that, exactly?
And incidentally, that's a great photograph.
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