Luke and Gene both made good comments about my ambition to write a book about our family’s educational experience. Both Luke’s thought that not so many people would want to read the thing and Gene’s thought that such an effort is a fine thing to do for future generations of his own family seem exactly right to me. I have to admit I was a little offended about the idea that not too many people would want to read my book, but on reflection I think it is true. We, like other homeschoolers, took our own unique path in educating our children. I suppose there are parts of they way we did it that will resonate with almost all homeschoolers, parts that only a few will like, and a lot that most will think ridiculous. Even we think some of the stuff we did was ridiculous.
I think, though, that this will be a good exercise for me, for my family, and maybe for a handful of others who have similar values and educational goals. My take-away from Luke’s and Gene’s comments are that I need to avoid doing this for any kind of selfish motive. I mentioned in a follow-up comment to the previous post that I would write the book with the idea that I would print a dozen or so copies to give to the kids and for posterity, then give the book away as an e-book on this web site. I think that is just about right. I might charge a small fee for the e-book to either give away to an appropriate charity or create a small scholarship fund for homeschoolers, but it kind of depends on whether I think the book is even good enough to warrant that.
Maybe Gene and I can read each others efforts as we work our way through this.
Betty Blonde #123 – 01/05/2009
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