{"id":1845,"date":"2011-09-23T15:27:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T21:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:56","slug":"unschoolingrules-places-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/09\/23\/unschoolingrules-places-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"#UnschoolingRules: Places to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/unschoolingrules.blogspot.com\/2011\/09\/places-to-learn.html\">#UnschoolingRules: Places to Learn<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/miranda1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1847\" title=\"miranda1\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/miranda1-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/miranda1-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/miranda1.jpg 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Well said Clark Aldrich.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The activity of farming teaches ethics as well as business and science.   Many corporations today seem to be run by near-sociopathic MBA&#8217;s who  think in terms of cramming, gaming the system, extraction, and winning  for the sake of winning (95% of people in a survey thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muffyaldrich.com\/2011\/08\/poll-is-ll-bean-on-right-track.html\">L.L. Bean<\/a> was now on the wrong track, as an example), all the attributes  developed and rewarded by the current industrial school system.<\/p>\n<div>Now  consider the activity of family farming over writing term papers or  studying for tests.  Farming takes patience, physical work, stewardship,  and the ability to react to a dynamic, real system.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>I would add that it is also a system where most parts are out of your direct control. You cannot buy or sweet-talk the weather, the plants, or most animals.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1845'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1845);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1845);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1845);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>#UnschoolingRules: Places to Learn. Well said Clark Aldrich. The activity of farming teaches ethics as well as business and science. Many corporations today seem to be run by near-sociopathic MBA&#8217;s who think in terms of cramming, gaming the system, extraction, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2011\/09\/23\/unschoolingrules-places-to-learn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,351,24],"tags":[110,103],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-nature-animals-urbanrural-life","category-teaching-learning","tag-rural-life-2","tag-society"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-tL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7801,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2025\/07\/04\/time-for-an-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":1845,"position":0},"title":"Time for an Update&#8230;.","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Big things have been happening in my personal life. 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