This is excellent, looking forward to the rest of the series.
My oldest nephew is now a junior in highschool, and his brother a sophomore. My sister and I were homeschooled, which provided a milieu that, I think, turned us into significantly more thoughtful and interesting people than the standard route of public school would have allowed…
This is excellent, looking forward to the rest of the series.
My oldest nephew is now a junior in highschool, and his brother a sophomore. My sister and I were homeschooled, which provided a milieu that, I think, turned us into significantly more thoughtful and interesting people than the standard route of public school would have allowed. But my sister has just sent her boys to public school throughout, which has disappointed me (actually it has made me mad at myself for failing to make the argument more convincingly, or to provide an alternative schooling environment).
I like the way you put it in the final section: you want to create a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. There is a vastly larger number of paints and brushes available for someone to learn to draw themselves in a thoughtfully curated personal milieu, than is given in the generic conformity machine of public school. Maybe it's not too late to impart some more color into my nephews' milieu.
One big part of me thinking through these things is to articulate to myself how to homeschool my daughters. They are still young, so for now it is my duty to do the curation, which entails a lot of complications that I do not cover in the essay, but I also want to articulate a way of viewing the world that I want them to understand once they become, what, ten maybe, and start curating more actively themselves.
But I'm also thinking about myself. We have such capacities now to curate our social milieu, and I have only just started to appreciate its power. So it is an ongoing process for me. I think we are in a transition as a society where we have still not rewired our norms and ideas to properly leveraged the internet, and I'm trying to do my small share in helping that along. Hopefully, articulating how you go about it can make it a little easier for people to get going, though savvy people are already doing most of the things I describe.
This is excellent, looking forward to the rest of the series.
My oldest nephew is now a junior in highschool, and his brother a sophomore. My sister and I were homeschooled, which provided a milieu that, I think, turned us into significantly more thoughtful and interesting people than the standard route of public school would have allowed. But my sister has just sent her boys to public school throughout, which has disappointed me (actually it has made me mad at myself for failing to make the argument more convincingly, or to provide an alternative schooling environment).
I like the way you put it in the final section: you want to create a distributed apprenticeship in the art of being you. There is a vastly larger number of paints and brushes available for someone to learn to draw themselves in a thoughtfully curated personal milieu, than is given in the generic conformity machine of public school. Maybe it's not too late to impart some more color into my nephews' milieu.
Thanks!
One big part of me thinking through these things is to articulate to myself how to homeschool my daughters. They are still young, so for now it is my duty to do the curation, which entails a lot of complications that I do not cover in the essay, but I also want to articulate a way of viewing the world that I want them to understand once they become, what, ten maybe, and start curating more actively themselves.
But I'm also thinking about myself. We have such capacities now to curate our social milieu, and I have only just started to appreciate its power. So it is an ongoing process for me. I think we are in a transition as a society where we have still not rewired our norms and ideas to properly leveraged the internet, and I'm trying to do my small share in helping that along. Hopefully, articulating how you go about it can make it a little easier for people to get going, though savvy people are already doing most of the things I describe.