<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">*bill w* - have you read "Summerhill" by A.S. Neill? </span><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">MB</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">No. Looks interesting, but I have no use for it. My grandchildren are in their 20s. Maybe if it had some theoretical interest, psychologically speaking? bill w</font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 11:09 AM MB via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat wrote:<br>
> Montessori - learn what you want to at your own rate. Friend of mine went<br>
> to a school like that to the third grade. Moved to Oklahoma and had to be<br>
> put back in the first grade - could not read or write - but boy could he<br>
> fingerpaint.<br>
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My brothers (in the 1930s) went to a special Progressive Education <br>
school. They did not learn to read (were free to choose their <br>
activities) although other kids in their classes did. Turns out these <br>
other kids were being tutored on the side! :D<br>
<br>
The oldest brother learned to read after he fell and broke his arm and <br>
could no longer do the things he'd been doing. He was about 3rd grade <br>
then, and he discovered the school library as he was not allowed out on <br>
the playground. He learned to read very quickly and never looked back. :)<br>
<br>
He studied all sorts of things all his life long, one never knew what <br>
information he had, it was so wide. Self-motivation was his life-style.<br>
<br>
For sure with children one must strike while the interest is there, <br>
otherwise the whole thing is a slog - as it was mostly for me in school, <br>
gah, I hated that place. So did my brothers and reassured me that life <br>
would really start once one got free of school.<br>
<br>
*bill w* - have you read "Summerhill" by A.S. Neill?<br>
<br>
MB<br>
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