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You bring up some good points

Posted by sans on 2020-June-20 05:48:25 EDT, Saturday
In reply to Has Home-Schooling Finally Come Into Its Own? posted by Eeyore on 2020-June-20 02:56:06 EDT, Saturday
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I can't personally speak to public education vs. private education vs. homeschooling, as I just haven't spoken to enough people to get a sense of a comparison.

I do really like the potential for homeschooling - the fact that you should, pretty easily, go way beyond the level of education in school. The film "Captain Fantastic" comes to mind (while it had a moronic scene where a daughter and father were discussing "Lolita," in the ignorant style of the time).

I don't see the curriculum being "state sanctioned" as a particular problem, more so that education in schools is mostly a waste of time for all concerned, especially at the higher levels. It's like it was developed with no knowledge of human psychology - it's almost completely centered around memorization, testing, followed by the quick and efficient forgetting of almost everything memorized by anyone with a relatively normal memory. Memorizing facts, which aren't even retained, instead of learning how to think, reason, critique, compare various arguments or perspectives and coming to your own conclusion.

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