Does this count as studying? The boy has a bottle of water which he is spitting into the trash can. After the third one I said, are you spitting in my trash can? I'm an elephant, he says. I wish you would do that in the sink instead, I said. Would an unschooler call that imaginative play a study of elephants? Does that count twords the 10,000 hours of study I'm hoping to get out of him? I'm not going to count it. I'm going to call it listerene gargling practice and future hygiene skills. That counts twords the social skills and the EQ, then, not really about elephants anymore. Um, I guess it doesn't really matter because iM counting those 10,000 hours of study practice by the resulting good study skills when it's over, not by counting actual hours.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar