She's on her way to my house, from Taos.
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'Tis the Season
Holly tweeted "#Tistheseason #learnnothingday #LND9"and this image:
She's on her way to my house, from Taos.
She's on her way to my house, from Taos.
Prepare to cease and desist
Learn Nothing Day #9. Try not to learn, on July 24.
If you succeed, leave a comment the next day.
If you fail, you could leave a comment at that point, if you wish to.
What's Special about This Number?" says this:
If you succeed, leave a comment the next day.
If you fail, you could leave a comment at that point, if you wish to.
What's Special about This Number?" says this:
9 is the maximum number of cubes that are needed to sum to any positive integer.That makes no sense to me at all, but it's just one of about a badillion bits of trivia, and lots of those DO make sense. Keep collecting parts and connections, and have fun with it! Today, I mean, or day after tomorrow. Not on July 24.
A Learn Nothing Day Dilemma
Janine Davies wrote:
I love kids' take on it!
A couple of years ago, Raghu Bharadwaj (Hema's son) called me on the phone to tell me that Learn Nothing Day was the most terrible idea he's ever heard. I let him explain to me why he thought it wasn't going to work and that it wasn't worth trying. It was a fun conversation. I told him I was on an old phone that had a dial, and a cord to the wall. Just for fun I was discussing other things I thought would interest him. He's been to my house, and I had been to his (in India, though his family is in New Jersey these days, and was when he called). Luckily, he was calling me before Learn Nothing Day, and not on it.
My youngest son Kes has been determined to crack ‘Learn nothing day’ ever since he heard of it 3 years ago, and he amuses us and himself very often with his ideas of how to do it…
As we know most (all) unschoolers fail epically very soon into the start of the day. ;-)
But Kes is determined to crack it! He mentions it a lot, and often randomly and quite suddenly he will jump up and proceed to run his latest cunning plan by us….Here is the conversation from recently.
Kes: Mum when is Learn Nothing Day? Is it soon?
Me: Yes, but it’s not until after your birthday.
Kes: Im going to crack it this year I really am! Im determined to find a way to learn nothing on that day….I know that trying to sleep through the whole day won’t work — because then I will have learnt how to sleep through a whole day! Is that even possible? I guess I could go into a trance like state, but then I will have learnt how to do that!
I know that if I kill myself then I will have learnt how to kill myself right before I die….
Me: Yes! And I don’t think anyone wants you to die for that day!
Kes: It really is impossible isn’t it! It's impossible to learn nothing on any day unless you are dead!
He then cracked himself up laughing! He laughed so much, and we all laughed too, and he kept saying over and over “It’s impossible!” and then laughing again, and he didn’t stop laughing for ages. :-)
Then he did stop suddenly, and said: “I'm still going to find a way! I am! Just you wait!” :-)
I love kids' take on it!
A couple of years ago, Raghu Bharadwaj (Hema's son) called me on the phone to tell me that Learn Nothing Day was the most terrible idea he's ever heard. I let him explain to me why he thought it wasn't going to work and that it wasn't worth trying. It was a fun conversation. I told him I was on an old phone that had a dial, and a cord to the wall. Just for fun I was discussing other things I thought would interest him. He's been to my house, and I had been to his (in India, though his family is in New Jersey these days, and was when he called). Luckily, he was calling me before Learn Nothing Day, and not on it.
Coloring page
If you'd like to print that to color, either click above, or the link below (two different files—one or both should work), or import the file into photoshop or something you can color with.
Original Coloring Page created in ink, by Maryna, at Fiverr.
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Ale Gutierrez's:
Rose Sorooshian's:
The Black Sea, from Bulgaria
From Bulgaria, a reminder of July 24, for unschoolers.
There are shells. Sound of sea! Ships (briefly).
I had put the video on facebook, but I'd like to have the full collection here.
Art and video by vvarna, at Fiverr.com
Why not Utah?
This is a list of holidays, by state, in the U.S., in 1960. Note Utah. There are a lot of stories in this data set!
But it will be more difficult to learn nothing, that day, in Utah, generally, than in other places in the world.
If you click the image, and then click THAT image, you can see it larger than the original. Nice old 1960's font.
Here are some notes about translating "Void in Utah" into French (and why one might want to do that).
http://learnnothingday.blogspot.com/2014/05/la-journee-sans-rien-apprendre.html
Unschoolers in Utah can use the day before or after, or just any old day.
But it will be more difficult to learn nothing, that day, in Utah, generally, than in other places in the world.
If you click the image, and then click THAT image, you can see it larger than the original. Nice old 1960's font.
Here are some notes about translating "Void in Utah" into French (and why one might want to do that).
http://learnnothingday.blogspot.com/2014/05/la-journee-sans-rien-apprendre.html
Unschoolers in Utah can use the day before or after, or just any old day.
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