Larry W4CSC wrote:

rhys wrote in
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As a marketer/advertising writer, I know how most "choices" are
illusory. Life at sea is a good teacher, by contrast, on how to think
clearly and rationally while maintaining a mystical relationship with
nature and the sea.



Could you have become a "marketer/advertising writer" if you'd spent YOUR
childhood at sea on correspondence courses?....or would you have become one
of those poor slaves hauling out someone's nasty engine from the bilges?

When people do something they really love, they tend to excell at it.
Life at sea doesn't have to consist entirely of just boat related
things. There are correspondence courses and ways to learn almost
anything, considering books, the internet, satellites, etc.

The key advantage of unschooling is that the person is doing something
they really are enthusiastic about. When people do things they love they
tend to master it and move on to other things, or just have fun the rest
of their lives mastering what they mastered, and making a good living at
it even.

The key problem on a boat is the child needs to have opportunities to
explore what interests them. This could present some major challenges to
the homeschooling parent on a boat.

In other words, name 4 very successful people you know who were home
schooled at sea by correspondence course....It's an interesting search.

Plenty of very successful people have been homeschooled and unschooled.
You have a point about it being more rare and difficult on a boat, but
it's not impossible. What if they decide to *facilitate* the child's
schooling by, say, going to places for the sake of the that sometimes?


--
Stephen

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For any proposition there is always some sufficiently narrow
interpretation of its terms, such that it turns out true, and
some sufficiently wide interpretation such that it turns out
false...concept stretching will refute *any* statement, and will
leave no true statement whatsoever.
-- Imre Lakatos