Posted on 08/19/2008 1:01:58 PM PDT by jazusamo
IBTP!
Sowell rules!
You made it. :)
The same could be said about Freepers and the Pajamamedia outdoing “professional” journalists. Dan Rather wishes it weren’t true. Now some of us are focused on Obama’s birth certificate forgery and the MSM is in deep silence/whistling past the graveyard mode.
A child who is home schooled, on average, is a different kind of child than one who goes to government schools.
Most important, the child who is home schooled has highly motivated parents. The child shares the genetics and the values of the dedicated, hard-working parents. Many kids in the government schools, on the other hand, have absent and/or unmotivated parents.
It’s not necessarily the teachers who are bad, it’s the self-selection into homeschooling or into government schools that makes the difference.
“When amateurs outperform professionals, there is something wrong with that profession”
That is why acting is not a profession. If a 9 year old girl(Tatum O’Neil) or a first time actor practicing physician(Dith Prang)can win the ultimate of awards, how difficult is that “profession”.
Right on the money. It probably wouldn’t be that way if professional journalists were objective and honest, but...
There is obviously something wrong with the “professional” (ie, government) system if the parents who are dedicated and involved and care about their children’s education will not choose that system, often at great personal expense and sacrifice.
Excellent point. The overwhelming majority of home schooled kids have parents that really care and are willing to make that sacrifice. Those kids have a big advantage to start with over the kid whose parents use schools as day care.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the paradigm and geopolitical/culture under which the public education system was created and nurtured expired a LONG time ago.
Public schools are obsolete.
Radio killed the Rock Star and the Internet (supercharged by google) killed public schools. They just don’t know it yet.
>>The same could be said about Freepers and the Pajamamedia outdoing professional journalists.<<
When I first laid eyes on the thread title, that is what I though it was going to talk about.
Well, if the Oscars were based on actual acting craft, members of the Royal Shakespeare Company would win every year. They are a popularity contest for insiders, not a professional award.
So true, the internet makes home schooling much easier. I have the world at my fingertips. Computers in general help, too, with the tremendous variety of CD Roms available on each subject, video streaming, satellite schools. . .
I know a student who was majoring in chemistry and wanted to teach chemistry in high school. Despite having taken rigorous chemistry, math and physics classes for her chemistry major she was still required to take a bonehead science class for teachers in order to get her teaching degree. Sadly a student who only took this bonehead science class would be fully qualified to teach high school chemistry in many states.
No wonder our students do so poorly.
Many years ago it was easy for everyone to know who the best actors were without any awards, now I wonder if there are any good ones. :)
Yep. Imagine the government literally PAYING FOR a high speed internet connection to every home with school age children as well as a FREE COMPUTER and Base Station.
Instead of $10k a year, it would be around $1500 and the quality of education each child gets would be determined by the involvement of the parents, or lack thereof. This is putting responsibility and control back in the parents hands, where it belongs.
But what ever would we do without those professional politicians selflessly guiding us through our pathetic, hum-drum little lives?
I love to read Dr. Sowell’s columns regarding educators and the elitism that exists in higher learning, he pulls no punches.
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