After browsing Dan P. MacAdams' offerings a bit, I'm struck again how all things pedological lead me back to my passion for homeschooling. No, not because of any religious convictions, but rather to generate in my children both excellence and leadership (or at least being a non-follower and end up as exec's like Enron).

Yet, I work for a University in my day job and spend a good deal of time thinking about COPs, community (which my children have less of in some ways and more of in others) and its impact on me and my career.

I see the family's chosen sport of Judo as a community with all the promise and problems of a COP. Dogmatism mixed with discovery.

And stories permeate it all. Stories of "unschooling" and judo triumphs, and Evil Exec's.

Thots?
Cheers
Tim Thomas