Subject: RE: BS: Home Education UK
From: Ebbie - PM
Date: 04 Oct 09 - 12:06 AM

Seems to me that the family you quote Ebbie are a great example of home education. They seem from what you say to exemplify the best in home education. Their parents have used their own skills to pass skills onto their children in the home. I call that home education.

Most of the talented young musicians in the folk music world I have met have done it in their spare time whilst at school and I make no judgement of which is these methods is better or worse.

But one thing is for certain, I bet the Alaskan students you talk about practised on a regular and probably frequent basis in a structured environment of starting with the simplest music and moving onto the more complex. Just as the ones who did it in their spare time did.

There are people who play by ear of course and are self-taught - but they all practise and they do it in a structured way. I have never met anyone who could simply pick up an instrument and play it without any musical education and practise whatsoever.

But Lizzie quotes it as an example of fine "home education" without really understanding what went on.