Mystery Solved
Sunday, September 16, 2007 at 12:18AM 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
Stephanie
Looks like the mystery was not solved and I may have been mis-attributing this quote. The best information I have now seems to point to Katrina Gutleben as being the author of this quote.
Reader Comments (6)
So she found you!
I always wondered who said that! Now the mystery is solved. :)
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Katrina Gutleben, who used to post as katgut, is the one who wrote it on Unschooling.com. I've never heard of Barbara Lamping except here. If you have an e-mail for her, I'd be glad to contact her and clear it up.
Thanks.
Thanks for the heads up. I will email you and hopefully we can get things straightened out.