conversation with 'manda...
(22:24:22) ladyjanecalm: don't let me start... or I'll end up on why pre-school education sucks!
(22:24:24) ladyjanecalm: *laughs*
(22:24:38) mosgirl36: why does pre-school education suck?
(22:25:03) ladyjanecalm: there is a great quote from L'engle 'bout this...
(22:26:13) ladyjanecalm: essentially, we are teaching our children to learn by Euclid's rules of geometry, in a world where we know they no longer actually work... and the product is a race of children who no longer believe in the unbelievable...
(22:26:29) ladyjanecalm: they learn about the world of things, but not the world of the imagination...
(22:26:43) ladyjanecalm: it was one of the things I experienced last year at the camp I worked at...
(22:26:58) ladyjanecalm: and GRAR!
(22:27:48) mosgirl36: i love you very much!
(22:27:49) ladyjanecalm: Grimm's fairy tales are going out the door simply because (horrors) they talk about (oh no!) death, and good not always prevailing...
(22:28:11) ladyjanecalm: WHY? (I warned you against this rant didn't I? *laughs*)
(22:28:52) ladyjanecalm: look at the controversy over Harry Potter, simply because it is focused on magic it is deamed too controversial and unreadable by some...
(22:29:51) ladyjanecalm: but magic is simply another word for mystery... or believing in the unbelievable... and as Einstein said, it is the mystery in life that allows the scientist to find the unfindable...
(22:30:06) ladyjanecalm: (so excuse me while I raise my children on MARS!!!)
(22:37:18) ladyjanecalm: ... so would you like to raise your children on mars too?
(22:37:20) ladyjanecalm: *laughs*
(22:38:10) mosgirl36: mars, huh?
(22:38:29) mosgirl36: well, the lack of air is a bit of a down side
(22:38:52) ladyjanecalm: yeah well, the lack of of imagination here is suffocating me!
also, the whole idea of limiting the vocabulary in children's books is absurd! we wonder why the average teenager uses less words??? how are people supposed to learn a language unless they are allowed to read the damn thing??? when I started reading, one of the first books I read was the unabridged Sherlock Holms, which has some of the most obscure words in it... but, from repeated readings, (and occasionally a dictionary) I was able to comprehend, and learn to use words that my peers were struggling with four to five years later...
(22:24:24) ladyjanecalm: *laughs*
(22:24:38) mosgirl36: why does pre-school education suck?
(22:25:03) ladyjanecalm: there is a great quote from L'engle 'bout this...
(22:26:13) ladyjanecalm: essentially, we are teaching our children to learn by Euclid's rules of geometry, in a world where we know they no longer actually work... and the product is a race of children who no longer believe in the unbelievable...
(22:26:29) ladyjanecalm: they learn about the world of things, but not the world of the imagination...
(22:26:43) ladyjanecalm: it was one of the things I experienced last year at the camp I worked at...
(22:26:58) ladyjanecalm: and GRAR!
(22:27:48) mosgirl36: i love you very much!
(22:27:49) ladyjanecalm: Grimm's fairy tales are going out the door simply because (horrors) they talk about (oh no!) death, and good not always prevailing...
(22:28:11) ladyjanecalm: WHY? (I warned you against this rant didn't I? *laughs*)
(22:28:52) ladyjanecalm: look at the controversy over Harry Potter, simply because it is focused on magic it is deamed too controversial and unreadable by some...
(22:29:51) ladyjanecalm: but magic is simply another word for mystery... or believing in the unbelievable... and as Einstein said, it is the mystery in life that allows the scientist to find the unfindable...
(22:30:06) ladyjanecalm: (so excuse me while I raise my children on MARS!!!)
(22:37:18) ladyjanecalm: ... so would you like to raise your children on mars too?
(22:37:20) ladyjanecalm: *laughs*
(22:38:10) mosgirl36: mars, huh?
(22:38:29) mosgirl36: well, the lack of air is a bit of a down side
(22:38:52) ladyjanecalm: yeah well, the lack of of imagination here is suffocating me!
also, the whole idea of limiting the vocabulary in children's books is absurd! we wonder why the average teenager uses less words??? how are people supposed to learn a language unless they are allowed to read the damn thing??? when I started reading, one of the first books I read was the unabridged Sherlock Holms, which has some of the most obscure words in it... but, from repeated readings, (and occasionally a dictionary) I was able to comprehend, and learn to use words that my peers were struggling with four to five years later...