Our brains don’t work like a class synopsis.
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Eight months ago I wrote about my younger son picking up an old copy of Maus Vol. I: My Father Bleeds History.
I never wrote about how he promptly put it down. It can be hard to write about those moments. It takes patience and quiet to allow learning to happen.
Then he picked it back up, reading voraciously night after night until he requested the second volume. He finished that in a short couple of days.
I don’t know of a program that would allow the stopping and starting of reading material at the student’s pace. This is one of the biggest advantages of home education and a true blessing of the child-led, unschooling approach.
I also doubt there is a curriculum that would assign this type of material to an eleven-year-old. Immediately upon finishing Maus Vol. II, he went back to an action-packed manga.
The pace of learning is unpredictable and never steady. There appear to be plateaus and valleys and steep inclines and declines…and the learning happens without any schedule in mind. A classroom setting has no room for the necessary gear shifting of learning.