What would you choose to make a film about?
Posted on May 10th, 2008
by 
Phoenix
Phoenix
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for May 10, 2008:
Homeschooling, the different types of it, the positive aspects, the socialisation that we experiencing - and everyone else is always worried about. Taking some of the myth away from something that is not the norm (well, not as norm as public schooling.)
But that is what I want to see in documentaries anyway, something I am not familiar with ,but not from the point of view of the outside world, but from the view point of someone in it. For example I would love to see a documentary of someone who practices Scientology and is frank about what he/she does every day, and how they live their faith.
Not the Tom Cruise version, or the media version. Basically show me how the truth is in your way of live, may it be how it really is to be an actor, or how it really is to be a professional athlete or how it really is to be a woman living as a muslim - not what we get fed by general media. I want to see what makes you feel passioned about your life, and I am sure we can learn from all these aspects and each other if we would be open, instead of getting told what part to see. I want to know, because I know there is something, even if it only a little something good in there somewhere in all different ways of live. Show me a japanese tea ceremony from the view point of the person performing it. You get the picture. Show me the beauty in it all. We are all one anyway.
All right, enough - that struck a nerve somehow, interesting!
But that is what I want to see in documentaries anyway, something I am not familiar with ,but not from the point of view of the outside world, but from the view point of someone in it. For example I would love to see a documentary of someone who practices Scientology and is frank about what he/she does every day, and how they live their faith.
Not the Tom Cruise version, or the media version. Basically show me how the truth is in your way of live, may it be how it really is to be an actor, or how it really is to be a professional athlete or how it really is to be a woman living as a muslim - not what we get fed by general media. I want to see what makes you feel passioned about your life, and I am sure we can learn from all these aspects and each other if we would be open, instead of getting told what part to see. I want to know, because I know there is something, even if it only a little something good in there somewhere in all different ways of live. Show me a japanese tea ceremony from the view point of the person performing it. You get the picture. Show me the beauty in it all. We are all one anyway.
All right, enough - that struck a nerve somehow, interesting!
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July 2008
great idea! I’d watch!
This is a great idea…I homeschooled my son years ago, when it was “unfashionable”..people thought it would isolate my son, he would have issues connecting etc….
He graduated form college last Dec. after spending a summer in Mexico, a semester in Chile and the last six months he was onn the Scholar-ship…TSS. It is a program that is 4 months travel on a ship around the world for his masters…he is now in Croatia, Slovenia and other countries traveling on a train…
issues connecting??? NOT!!! LOL
Thanks for this grand idea!!!
:)
Aley
Aley, you've done well. Maybe your bio? hehehe Love to you. sherri
Yes, we hear the concerns about socialization all the time. Is throwing a bunch of immature beings in a large group together, the blind leading the blind, socialization? I prefer the whole-listic approach, exposing our child to all ages of people in smaller doses, just like adult life is like.
The other one we get is “but is he learning to read?” Gosh, he's only 7. On instinct, only later have we discovered this is the Montessori method, he is learning to read by learning to write. What does he write?, all of the multitude of stories that reside in his own creative mind.
My children learn by our awareness of teaching moments in the midst of their own interests. We provide a rich environment of the varied aspects of this thing called life and let their own natures decide their course.
It would be difficult to portray what we do in film, though my older child became a filmaker at age 6.
Deborah
Great idea! I homeschooled my son using the study tech and learning how to learn tech by Hubbard and he turned out great. He got a job and worked his way into the union for crew in show business and has been steadily working the past 5 years. He bought his own house from his jobs and just last week got married. This is a mom's pride thing. I have nothing else I would care to really brag about. There are millions of families that home school and those kids are LUCKY!!!! I have some footage but I agree it could be put into a way that any of your techniques can be applied. Start collecting clips from the kids learning something new and we can put it to a film. I can help edit it, but for now let it be known that Montessori or whatever it takes as a method for kids that they are so much more better off learning at home, and if they are in public school–that the parents take a very very strong interest in helping with homework and care about what is going on with their child..
Tom Cruise isn't the only example. Although He helped on the funding of Spanish Lakes and puts a lot of money back to school betterment groups, John and Kelly have been funding study programs throughout the world for years, Isaac Hayes opened the World Literacy Crusade, and another celeb helping on study and human rights is Anne Archer.