Why? Both are under the umbrella of creative work.
I can get gifs at my local hardware store? Interesting.
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Homeschooling is the key word. Iâve run into this sort of thing with self-directed G&T programs and Hampshire college, but not in home schooling.
[quote=âearnestinebrown, post:15, topic:40839, full:trueâ]I feel like the system beats your natural inclinations out of you and pushes you in certain directions.[/quote]So itâs a bit like life in general, then.
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Why would they have no concept of history? At least in the US, I would think they would have a better chance of really learning history instead of the repetitive narrow version of it thatâs taught for the first 12 years in public schools.
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I donât know about that. Why would unschoolers be less interested in history than public school kids? If youâre not interested in history, being forced to temporarily memorize random facts about it for a year or two in your youth will produce the same effect in adulthood as not studying history at all.
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Hewitt also wrote a piece for the August? issue of Outside.
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Whoâd want to study history when you can choose whatever else youâd like instead? A few, perhaps. Not most. And youâll end up with a generation of uninformed voters.
Thatâs what I was looking for! I read that.
ButâŚwe already have uninformed voters. The current and traditional method of creating informed voters has generally failed to do so since about forever.
And whoâd want to study history? Lots of kids! Of course, lots of kids donât. The ones who do should be able to study the parts of history that interest them the most, instead of getting turned off of history by the rigid guidelines at school. The ones who donât should be able to spend their time studying things that interest them.
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Whoâd want to study history when you can choose whatever else youâd like instead?
You donât seem to understand the type of individual that actually thrives in this kind of environment. i.e. one that wants to learn because they are interested in things. Iâm also going to assume you have a personal distaste for history.
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I home schooled my kid from 3.5 to 6. She wanted to read at that age, and Iâm like, ok, letâs do this. She entered 1st grade reading at the third grade level. Her math was high too, though I just did what the workbooks said. Funny thing was, in the beginning I had to make sure she was reading, vs just reciting a book we had read to her or she had read ~3 times.
Anyway, I am a bit leery of unschooling, as I think at an early age there needs to be some clear structure and Inquisition of the basics. Also, how do you know if you like or are good at something if you arenât exposed to it first? I think in older kids who have the basics down and want to focus on certain interests it is a good thing. I have also seen a show (I think it was a Wife Swap) where some hippie âunschooledâ and his daughter couldnât read text messages from friends, and his boys interests were basically video games.
I know, I know, one parentâs half assery shouldnât condemn the concept. I would just caution this isnât a good fit for all children, and I would personally use it primarily for older kids. Note that with a structured home school environment you can make time for personal interest focused things.
I donât get people who donât like history. Itâs basically story time full of interesting things.
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I donât get people who donât like history. Itâs basically story time full of interesting things.
I think it can have a lot to do with the way one comes by it. For instance, if Iâm interested in chemistry and am studying the bosch-haber process Iâm one moments curiosity from being off and running on industrialization and 2 world wars.
If Iâm sitting in a classroom and somebody is beating the story of Columbus sailing to America into my head for the 6th year straight, yeah. Iâm not so interested.
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Most unschooling parents very consciously expose their kids to as much as possible in order to determine what to pursue.
Absolutely. I think sometimes people read articles about unschooling or homeschooling or some other education alternative and take it as saying we should replace public school with that thing. But of course, the point of these alternatives is that they work for some kids. Just like public school works for some kids. No method works for all kids. And thatâs why itâs important for the millions of kids who are in public school, but utterly miserable there, to know that there are lots of different paths that lead to a happy, fulfilling adulthood.
Some day, I hope we donât need to refer to any education as âalternative,â because there will be so many different kinds of education which meet the needs of so many different kinds of students.
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Followed by a test where you are asked to remember all of the annoying minutia (dates, full names, unimportant characters) or fail.
I love learning about history, but I hate memorizing all of the VP picks for the presidential losers since 1796.
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Public education kills intellectual curiosity, creativity, and motivation. The further I get away from high school, the more things I find interesting.
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There can be humanities nerdsâŚ
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This is why people think they donât like history⌠The dead white âgreatâ men version most people get in schools is so boring and tedious. No wonder why lots of people donât care about it.
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