Sep 15 2007

Mystery Solved

Published by throwingmarshmallows at 8:18 pm under Quotes, Random Homeschool Thoughts, Blog Stuff

I first heard the Throwing Marshmallows quote after which this blog is named when I was reading the Unschooling.com bulletin boards years ago. I loved it and asked the author if I could use it as my signature line. She agreed. I don’t remember how long I used it as a sig line. When I started thinking about a name for my blog, that quote came back to me and seemed like a perfect name. But somehow I had lost the name of the person who had said it! I tried going back to unschooling.com, but could not find any reference to it. I also tried googling it, but no luck. So I decided to attribute it to “anonymous”.

This morning I got an email from a woman who said that she was the originator of that quote! Yea! Finally. A name to go with the quote!

So thank you Barbara Lamping for your wonderfully visual and accurate quote:

“Learning can only happen when a child is interested. If he’s not interested it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” - Barbara Lamping

4 Responses to “Mystery Solved”

  1. # kimon 16 Sep 2007 at 1:57 pm

    So she found you!

  2. # Summeron 16 Sep 2007 at 2:02 pm

    I always wondered who said that! Now the mystery is solved. :)

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