Don't think for a minute that my boy is only learning from him home-schooling mom! Or no siree! Yesterday he comes home with a certificate of proficiency in Buddhism.
There is an organisation - some connection with UNESCO too - based in Bangkok running a project to increase Thai people's knowledge about Buddhism. Jonty not only passed their test, he got full marks for it.
The teachers made me laugh because they know we're Christians so they asked how I would feel if they were to award Jonty this particular certificate i.e. on the off chance, if, perhaps, he were to write the test.... you know, just suppose...
I asked a few questions and was comfortable with their answers (clearly it was intellectual knowledge only) so I said it was fine - whereupon they sheepishly presented him with the certificate and his prize, which one teacher was hiding behind her back!!!
And so his knowledge grows.
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