Thanks We're all striving for a better world, each according to
their strengths. Since there's not yet a magic, "Make everything
better at once" bomb, or a set of magic words we could say that
would reverberate through the world, make them stop and go,
"ohh! I see now!" and then improve... the efforts must continue.
Had I been more bold, I'd happily been traveling, giving talks,
educating, distributing information, yet that's not a strength
of mine. Sitting behind my computer and typing a lot is where
I'm strong I'm an armchair philosopher. Yet unlike armchair
philosophers of old, the ability to connect vast distances and
engage at some level through the Internet is extraordinarily
powerful, so I don't feel hampered.
Seeing you doing what you do, and having a historical connection
to what you're doing - gives me kind of a "grandpa"/"uncle"
feeling of, "Yup - that's my boy out there!" - and, well, I'm
proud of you.
I read the works of John Holt (Unschooling / why johnny can't
read) and about Summerhill school back when I was in middle
school - just tripping over them in the library.. and being
fascinated that there were *alternatives* out there, not just to
education but to how I thought of myself in relation to the
world.
And I'd like to think that, if John Holt or the guy that founded
Summerhill decades ago, or other people who never even knew me,
they'd look forward in time and see my efforts that I did and
go, "Yup - that's my boy out there!"
I'm weird though; I think of Time as kind of like that Thanks
again man.
