tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post2245439006008932634..comments2024-01-19T04:29:08.081-06:00Comments on subrealism: never say anything suddenly got a whole lot to sayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-56502303462771494832013-12-19T09:31:47.396-06:002013-12-19T09:31:47.396-06:00We were discussing unschooling and the Sudbury sch...We were discussing unschooling and the Sudbury schools a couple of months back. In principle, there's merit in the approach. My main beef with it is that its adherents can't seem to visualize anything other than a women's finishing school as a context for it. So unschooling ends up being about cultivating the "domestic arts"...and that's about it. But perhaps that's the whole point.Nakajima Kikkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-65482587751671750152013-12-18T11:10:36.448-06:002013-12-18T11:10:36.448-06:00I guess you could call me one. I line up with the...I guess you could call me one. I line up with them philosophically, but I won't publicaly call myself an unschooler.Vic78noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-16238511985652076902013-12-18T09:32:42.214-06:002013-12-18T09:32:42.214-06:00Are you an unschooler?Are you an unschooler?Nakajima Kikkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-79450647685715154022013-12-18T08:16:49.871-06:002013-12-18T08:16:49.871-06:00Yeah my daughter's in 5th grade, her math basi...Yeah my daughter's in 5th grade, her math basically just caught up to where we had her in 1st grade, plus now she dislikes the subject.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-9765093782213002362013-12-17T16:22:40.936-06:002013-12-17T16:22:40.936-06:00I figured out in 8th grade that school was all abo...I figured out in 8th grade that school was all about cattle management. I wish I was aware of my options when I was in high school. I would've dropped out and spent a year at a junior college. That idea didn't come to me until I was 20. <br /><br />Kids today have options available to them that they should consider. K-12 is a waste of their time. If you're designated as gifted, you really should be getting the fuck out ASAP. They can't help you. College is much better for one's development anyway.Vic78noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-18881819643781395292013-12-17T11:06:36.945-06:002013-12-17T11:06:36.945-06:00To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or t...To sustain a lifestyle which excludes others, or to sustain enthusiasm <br />for that selfish ideal, a globalization of indifference has developed. <br />Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling <br />compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people’s pain, <br />and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else’s <br />responsibility and not our own. The culture of prosperity deadens us; When one is left to fend for himself, the culture of competence hardens and deadens as well. Try Harder! Do Better!! Make Efforts!!!! - <b>or die...,</b>CNuhttp://subrealism.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-17502288087953270982013-12-17T10:43:01.234-06:002013-12-17T10:43:01.234-06:00Most of these proposals are completely nuts. The p...Most of these proposals are completely nuts. The primary reason why so many gifted students who take AP courses do poorly on AP exams is not because their classes aren't moving at a sufficiently "accelerated" pace, but simply because their neural systems are not yet fully developed to handle the abstract reasoning required to perform college-level scientific work <b>with real understanding.</b><br /><br />In terms of teaching science, what's really needed, for both the gifted and the average student, is to step back and put the science curriculum on a more and firmer <b>concrete</b> foundation, more suited to whatever stage the kids' neural development is at. Less (perhaps much less) bookwork and problem sets, and much more physical manipulations of materials. I know from experience that gifted kids especially can be very, very glib with language; to the untrained ear, it may seem that they thoroughly understand a scientific principle (say, orbitals or cell division), when in fact their understanding is rudimentary at best. Applying accelerationism to gifted education is a train wreck waiting to happen.<br /><br />And we haven't even touched on the deleterious effects accelerationism would have on these kids' social development. Talk about a guaranteed way to generate infra-sexual personalities! None of these kids need hyper-accelerated AP physics at age 14. What they need is more exposure to something like this:<br /><br />http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=250508Nakajima Kikkanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11539837.post-32686308633460614312013-12-17T09:57:14.280-06:002013-12-17T09:57:14.280-06:00Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper
http://www...Omnilingual (Feb 1957) by H. Beam Piper<br />http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/03/scientific-language-h-beam-pipers-qomnilingualq<br />http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308/omnilingual<br />http://librivox.org/omnilingual-by-h-beam-piper/<br /><br />Badge of Infamy (Jun 1957) by Lester del Rey<br />http://librivox.org/badge-of-infamy-by-lester-del-rey/<br />http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/book/badge-of-infamy-by-lester-del-rey<br /><br />Who needs museums when we have tablets. We can have videos and simulations.umbrarchistnoreply@blogger.com