tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post11895412519833123..comments2024-03-16T12:33:09.741-05:00Comments on <center>Landscape Plotted and Pieced</center>: Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child: Introduction and Chapter OneKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-64432932975476158562011-01-22T22:16:56.588-06:002011-01-22T22:16:56.588-06:00I learned to hate math in school, and 17 years of ...I learned to hate math in school, and 17 years of homeschooling hasn't remedied it, unfortunately. :-(Gailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00742550856268655841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-11163644807044839082011-01-12T20:00:52.468-06:002011-01-12T20:00:52.468-06:00No, I haven't heard of it, but I had a similar...No, I haven't heard of it, but I had a similar experience. In first grade I had a game I played with myself -- finish all my papers first in the class without making any mistakes. I can still remember that feeling of satisfacting of turning my completed paper face down, laying down my pencil, looking around the room, and seeing that I was indeed the first finished. And I never had any mistakes. The first thing I learned in school was how to be, in CS Lewis's words, a prig.<br /><br />And, boy, did I learn that lesson well. I'm still having to unlearn it.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-54411076682345267012011-01-12T18:18:10.232-06:002011-01-12T18:18:10.232-06:00Kelly,
This reminded me of reading an old homescho...Kelly,<br />This reminded me of reading an old homeschooling book titled The 3 R's at Home by Susan and Howard Richmond, I think. You may just have heard of it. I still want to give a copy to my daughter-in-law who is starting to get excited about homeschooling. <br /><br />Susan tells how much fun she was having as a little girl filling in a test and how she knew every thing and it was so much fun until she realized everyone else was hurrying and there was .....horrors....a time limit. It changed her life and the way she viewed school for many years. Something was stolen from her that day but she was smart enough not to let it be stolen from her own children.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02413838626377092356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-80075066394114079822011-01-12T12:53:55.005-06:002011-01-12T12:53:55.005-06:00Thanks, Dana. :-)
Debra, I think you're right...Thanks, Dana. :-)<br /><br />Debra, I think you're right. I can think of two specific instances where picking a poem apart has made me love it better. In one case, John Donne's "The Sunne Rising," I loved from the first, but in the other, "a thrown a" by E.E. Cummings, I didn't even understand it before I read an article that first "translated" then dissected the poem. Now it's one of my favorites.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16618197716777772631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-89374622930889589682011-01-12T07:31:17.942-06:002011-01-12T07:31:17.942-06:00Oh, Kelly! That was a delightful commentary for b...Oh, Kelly! That was a delightful commentary for book club!<br /><br />Sometimes I like to synopsize, but mainly when I dont quite get the author's information (remember Piefer's Leisure).<br /><br />Your personal reflections sound insightful.Dana in Georgiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973506073487871220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-60254117618100106082011-01-12T03:15:40.854-06:002011-01-12T03:15:40.854-06:00I wonder if the problem with dissection isn't ...I wonder if the problem with dissection isn't that we don't take the trouble to appreciate and observe it whole, before we dissect it, nor do we put it back together again afterwards and appreciate how much more grand it is than it was before, rather than the fact of dissection.<br />The difference between a frog and a poem on the dissection table is that the poem can come back to even greater life than before, if we treat it with reverence.Debrahttp://www.fuelthemuse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5144372.post-86354997487478407632011-01-11T23:42:36.732-06:002011-01-11T23:42:36.732-06:00Kelly, I used to think I hated history, too! I lik...Kelly, I used to think I hated history, too! I liked math, but I think that is because it never became not-play to me. With that said, I still didn't understand how that problem in the book worked, so maybe I only learned the New Math. HA!<br /><br />But back to history, yes! I don't remember being required to memorize very much, but I remember that everything was in textbooks and written in such a way as to bore the life out of a student, and quickly at that.<br /><br />Educators really can kill learning, can't they?Brandy Vencelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17945305890488681685noreply@blogger.com