Posted on 04/08/2013 5:43:40 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
Former Republican congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul has launched his own K-12 home-school curriculum to provide an “education in liberty like no other.”
The curriculum, which includes courses on “the economics of the Austrian school,” provides its K-5 program for free, meaning that students and families will be able to learn under Ron Paul for six years “without spending a dime,” according to one of the curriculum’s high school teachers, Ludwig von Mises Institute senior fellow Tom Woods.
“Here, students learn the basics of Western Civilization and Western liberty — how it was won, how it is being lost, and how it will be restored. (Not can . . . will.),” RonPaulCurriculum.com declares.
“Students also learn the basics of American history, the United States Constitution, and American geography. They get two courses on free market economics. They get two courses on government, including a how-to course on reclaiming America, one county at a time.”
The curriculum also provides courses in science and mathematics.
The curriculum for grades 6-10 should be available by September 2, and the entire K-12 curriculum is expected to be completed by December 2015.
An introductory video by director of curriculum development Gary North explains that Paul’s curriculum will “teach the Biblical principle of self-government and personal responsibility,” and will teach students both “the history of liberty” and also about “liberty’s rivals.” It will also teach about the Constitution and how the Constitution “has been hijacked.”
The curriculum will rely solely on primary source documents, not textbooks, which North claims “are screened by committees” and “dumb down the material.”
Students will also learn how to create their own YouTube channels and their own home businesses.
Paul is the latest in a series of conservative public figures to design their own educational programs for the youth of America. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich currently hosts “Newt University,” an online college course for Kaplan Higher Education Corporation. Gingrich recently devoted a lesson to the subject of driverless cars.
Conservative radio and television personality Glenn Beck has announced that he is planning an ambitious $2 billion Texas compound called Independence, USA. Inspired by the vision of Walt Disney, Beck’s Independence, USA claims it will incorporate a theme park, a marketplace where craftsmen and artisans can run their own small businesses, a multi-denominational church, a media center to train journalists, and a research and development center where people will be educated in the principles of liberty.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/08/ron-paul-launches-his-own-home-school-curriculum/#ixzz2PvEf59X2
Thank you, ConjunctionJunction, for the information.
Ping for laughs. Especially the how to be a blogger course.
Maybe a course in how give money to the Shrimp industry..
Being in the education biz, I frequent a lot of home school pages on FB and other sites and this has come up in the past week a LOT. The one universal factor that people point out is that it isn’t recognized by any legitimate accreditation body. The other problem is they are selling that they can ‘test out’ of college courses but good luck finding a college that will recognize their tests.
There are a LOT of good, Conservative based home school curriculum vendors out there.
(it is also kind of creepy that this is centered around a person versus a philosophy, kind of cultish in a LaRouche sort of way).
ping
How to make money with blimps and chip-ins for phony NASCAR sponsorships.
Cool, a degree from Moonbat U
This is great I mean do they call it the RonPaulHomeschool or HOW I LIVED IN MY PARENTS BASEMENT BY MYSELF FOR MY ENTIRE LIIIIIFE?????
Wow, per my previous post I was looking at a home school site and they posted some info from the website, RonPaulCurriculum.com.
It doesn’t look like it is an ‘official Ron Paul’ site at all and is bordering on an outright SCAM! Some gems from the FAQs.
Are your courses accredited?
Will my state’s home school regulators accept your courses as valid?
Not if they’re smart. Our philosophic goal is to get their agencies shut down.
But what if my child gets stuck?
Other students on the forums will help out.
But what if my child just cannot master a course?
Let him drop the course. Ask for a refund.
But doesn’t he have to master the material?
Probably not. If he does, and he can’t, is he doomed? Probably not. I don’t understand physics. I got by.
Doesn’t he have to know advanced math?
Probably not. But it helps.
But will he get into college if he does not know math?
About 15 million high school graduates did who do not know much math. Besides, our math teacher is excellent.
Yep, deeper dig.... this isn’t done by Paul but by an old moonbat Gary North. He was a big ‘the sky is falling’ Y2K freak and got a LOT of people to buy into his ‘survive Y2K’ investment schemes.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000301050703/http://www.garynorth.com/
OK... I can see how this idea is going to be received... lol.
Personally, I would consider it - not as a full curriculum, but as supplementary information - just like using Khan Academy or any of the other free educational sources available on the internet.
More ‘buyer beware’ for potential home schoolers from the site itself.
http://www.ronpaulcurriculum.com/public/126.cfm
Great warning ... One must know what is being taught to their child.
courtesy ping.
It appears not not be officially a Ron Paul thing either. He simply licensed the rights to use his name. The folks at The Daily Paul are trashing the heck out of it.
http://www.dailypaul.com/281139/the-libertarian-taliban-writing-ron-pauls-cirriculum
Congrats on your success.
See 17, the Ron Paul websites are even trashing it and are angry Paul licensed his name to it. Considering the background of the person who started it, I expect it to not last very long and a lot of people to be out of a lot of money and frustrated when they try to claim credit hours from it.
The keyword for the FREE REPUBLIC HOMESCHOOLERS’ FORUM is frhf.
OK... There has been quite a reaction to this idea so far. What say you? Would you use this curriculum?
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