I would have been happy if I had been able to help my children with their homework but being taught the German System. It was impossible for me. The result came out the same, but still.
“Teaching a child at home is not an easy task. It takes time, effort, and, most of all, love. “
And money. And a desire to reach out to other sources to open up new horizons to the child.
ANYTHING that can be taught in a classroom is now available on-line.
Public and private schools perform one important factor.
It concentrates a bunch of kids together and they learn how to be kids and learn social skills. .
The wife and I taught our kids (and supplemented the public education) much of the knowledge they have making them the successful adults they are. We also taught them what to see what were lies perpetrated by public schools.
It’s a balancing act.
This statement sums up what should be obvious to all but the most politically motivated defenders of what passes for "public education" today.
Union/political/bureaucratic control of the entire "education" process for preparing youth for citizenship in a free society has failed to accomplish that purpose, and that failure has left the future of freedom and liberty at risk.
"We, the People" must be equipped to distinguish between the principles that would keep America free and prosperous versus the false premises that will enslave her, and we must be able to articulate them.
Accommodating tyranny by failing to call it what it is is dangerous. We long have needed a leader whose words are strong and courageous and based in the principles of our Declaration of Independence.
American citizens need to wake up to the counterfeit ideas and false "hopes" offered by politicians who use "promises," just as the rest of us use "currency."
They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections. By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty.
Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power.
Before I met her, my wife home schooled her children by her late husband. They are all doing well, but neither she nor they are simply average.
Before I met her, my wife home schooled her children by her late husband. They are all doing well, but neither she nor they are simply average.
Before I met her, my wife home schooled her children by her late husband. They are all doing well, but neither she nor they are simply average.