Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Learning Journey
We picked up two new books on our trip - The Everything Homeschooling Book and Son of Web Pages That Suck. The first book is full of interesting factoids and details on how to homeschool your children, but has already found a way to annoy me with the phraseology that homeschooling is a "Learning Journey". The overuse of the word Journey to describe a process in popular culture just really gets to me, and this particular phrase, in my opinion, reinforces the flighty nature that mainstream America gives to homeschooling parents. It really makes my skin crawl.
Son of Web Pages That Suck is bereft of such goosebump-inducing wording (although Flashturbation comes close). I already know most of Vincent's maxims through his excellent website, but it's nice to see them in print so I can show it as a truly printed authority on the matter to those who just don't get it. And it preserves forever such gaffes as Orrin Hatch's fun page. And it has my name it print. No, not because I suck. Because it lists me as a friend of the site, along with several hundred other close, personal friends.------------------------------------------------