Spontaneous Learning

Yesterday afternoon Meredith was trailing a bit behind the rest of the group, drawing things in the ground with her stick. I called to her, and she yelled back for me to come see what she was doing. I went back to her, and she told me she was writing “Mimi” (her nickname). Then she pointed at the ground saying “Look Mama, M and I for Mimi.”

M and I for Mimi

You can see an M, and then to the left two straight lines. She pointed to the first straight line (the one closest to the M) and told me that was the “I”, so I don’t know if the second one was already there, or was her doodling, or if it’s just something she hadn’t finished. She then told me that “M is for Mama too!”, and then went running off to catch up with the group.

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“It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”
~ John Taylor Gatto

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