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[anniegetyourgun]

Thanks for posting - a very good read on the subject. The "establishment" he left for retirement must hate him.

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[bc2]

I read this last week. It was interesting.

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[longtermmemmory]

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[Valpal1]

Whoa! Good Find!

If I hear my kids need socialization one more time, I'll....Well I don't know what I'll do, but it won't be pretty.

[Defiant]

Thanks for posting this.

[sheltonmac]

First, though, we must wake up to what our schools really are: laboratories of experimentation on young minds, drill centers for the habits and attitudes that corporate society demands. Mandatory education serves children only incidentally; its real purpose is to turn them into servants. Don't let your own have their childhoods extended, not even for a day. If David Farragut could take command of a captured British warship as a pre-teen, if Thomas Edison could publish a broadsheet at the age of twelve, if Ben Franklin could apprentice himself to a printer at the same age (then put himself through a course of study that would choke a Yale senior today), there's no telling what your own kids could do. After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

I think the last paragraph really sums it up. We would be well to consider the effects public "education" has had on our current political situation.

[Freakazoid]

I can dig it. Thanks for the post!

[tahiti]

"After a long life, and thirty years in the public school trenches, I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves."

I haven't even lived a long life and have discovered thie statement in bold type to be true.

[don-o]

When Mrs. don-o and I began to consider homeschooling 15 years ago, JTG was one of the voices who hit all the right notes as to what is wrong with the institutional approach to education, especially as practiced in America.

I am pleased to see this posted, as I was not aware of it - from Harper's, even.

John's thoughts are paradigm breakers for folks who will actually think a thing through.

[don-o]

We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.

A snip.

If y'all are like me, a long article like this sometimes gets passed by. Please save it somewhere, in a "must read" file, and consider sharing it.

The essay is chock full of such gems.

[iconoclast]

I'm all for technical schools. My problem is when/how to decide to divert kids to them.

My strong preference is to see classical liberal education reinstituted in the government school system to replace the Dewey madness.

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