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Article: Progressive digressions: home schooling for self-actualization.
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- Roeper Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2002
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My work is digressive, and it is progressive too,--and at the same time. I have constructed the main work and the adventitious parts of it with such intersections, and so complicated and involved the digressive and progressive movements, one wheel within another, that the whole machine, in general, has been kept a-going;--and, what's more, it shall be kept a-going these 40 years, if it pleases the fountain of health to bless me so long with life and good spirits. (Tristram, the narrator of Sterne's 1760 experimental 18th-century novel; Sterne, 1965, pp. 54-55)
Home schooling a gifted child is much like the design of Tristram s novel, a series of seemingly ...