My mother sent me this.
Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go! as told by the people of Burning Man 2011.
Just what I need.
Just want to point out that in your post on unschooling, you say unschoolers are first taught the basics of reading and math, then let to choose the rest of their own learning, and that's not accurate. If you're unschooling, you're not "taught" anything unless you ask to be taught/seek out a teacher, including when it comes to the basics! I learned to read through being read to for many years, then eventually just picked up a book and started reading when I was about 9... :)
Whoa! Really? I had no idea! I was under the impression it was something like the classical learning where you learned basic skills to acquire more knowledge. Hahaha This is me thinking how to apply it in a public school system. It’s been one of the major problems of the Philippines and I thought that maybe there was some dimension about it I could systematize into public utility.
(Take note, readers. I’ve just been schooled! -In a manner of speaking)
Unschooling
So I’ve been reading on education again. Damn it, Thiel Fellowship. In modern education, you learn to read and write and do mathematical functions and then information is crammed down in the form of separate subjects such as maths, sciences, history, social sciences, languages, literature. You sit, they talk, you listen.
On the other hand, there is unschooling. Unschooling is what its name suggests: no lecture halls, no time table, no frames and curriculums. Just like the classical greek education, you are taught to read and write and do mathematical functions. That is as far as the traditional faculty goes. After that, you are given a multitude of resources for your mind to feast on. You learn what you want to learn and you drive yourself to learn. No lazy daisy classroom lectures. Pure, unadulterated self study. Wish we had that culture of learning. I most of the professors in Ateneo should really just write books on their courses. When you think about it this way, college seems to be a little bit on the unecessary side.
College however, even with the “overpriced” fancy documentation, the maintenance of the minds and the propagation of these intellectual resources is nurtured in universities. You can be successful out of college. But it’s still friggen important.
So now, I wonder if I should still put up my school.
