Raison d'etre
So I just got back from the Radical Unschooling weeklong blowout by the beach on Salt Spring Island in BC (thank you Craig & Gillian--you guys rock!) and the whole experience reinforced two of my longest held beliefs:
1. Unschoolers are the coolest people in the universe (with the possible exception of the inhabitants of RufusX in the Ig!ntz galaxy who truly know how to party like its 9,999,999,999)
2. There ought to be a permanent Unschooling Conference Center.
The purpose of this blogspot is to explore the possibility of creating #2 for #1, because after all, unschooling is all about manifesting reality out of dreams.
1. Unschoolers are the coolest people in the universe (with the possible exception of the inhabitants of RufusX in the Ig!ntz galaxy who truly know how to party like its 9,999,999,999)
2. There ought to be a permanent Unschooling Conference Center.
The purpose of this blogspot is to explore the possibility of creating #2 for #1, because after all, unschooling is all about manifesting reality out of dreams.
The Vision
In a nutshell, a permanent, fixed Unschooling Conference Center looks a lot like summer camp for adults, with everything parents might need to raise their children in freedom.
It might contain:
1. A large wooded tract of land with access to a pond/river/stream/lake, and not too far from a major airport.
2. A main conference center building
3. cabins and dormitory accommodations
4. a large communal kitchen, cafeteria, vegetable garden
5. an art barn with enough room to accommodate our creative passions, including, but not limited to: candle making, finger painting, tie-dye, mecha construction, pottery, welding, beer making, glass making (for the beer, of course, eh?), etc.
6. Gaming Center, Media Center, Library, Music Studio, Pirate Ninja dojo...
...and whatever else we imagine it ought to have.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
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13 comments:
Only if it was right here in Jonesborough TN. I'm never leaving these mountains.
But yeah...you're describing the dream.
Yes! Yes!
Oh ho ho, you bet.
Totally.
Possibly. More than likely.
in an instant...we'd be poor as I don't know what to make it happen, but we'd make it happen!
I let Charles in on the idea last night and we say yes.
Wow, we've been itching for a change in our location (though we love the city, the country is calling us too), maybe this is it. (!!!!)
yes, as long as we do have some private space, 'cuz some of you rock it harder than i can handle sometimes ;)
Well we need to be in Wisconsin of Minnesota with our cows!or can we bring them?
I meant "OR" :)
I think a decent intentional community of any kind should definitely have dairy cattle! Yes, yes.
We would LOVE to live there (where ever there is) This sounds so WONDERFUL and EXCITING!!
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