Autodidacticism is not for everybody

Don't go to the next thread yet. It's all centered.

We homeschooled our three. Tried curricula. Ended up just imparting knowledge about anything and everything wherever we were. Taught them: You're responsible for your own education, wherever you are.

Had a niece temporarily living with us. Out at lunch one day, because of a news item about Israel, the Mrs and I were explaining to the four young'n's one day about two thousand years of history, Disapora, pogroms, the current State, the six-day war, leading into current Middle East situation, when the previously-public-schooled niece randomly opines, "I need to do my fingernails."

Autodidacticism: It's not for everybody.

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