Posted on 08/19/2008 1:01:58 PM PDT by jazusamo
Agreed, it is the DUTY of the parents to educate their children.
And if the burden of an improperly educated child fell on the parents, as it should, and as it would without our welfare/social safety hammock,
children would be educated.
Sounds like a very good example of the elitism that exists in education.
Not surprising. I tend to think that parents have been gifted by God to teach their own kids. That’s pretty tough to compete with, professionally trained or not.
We homeschool. We can do in a couple of hours what takes a government school all day.
This is fun: http://www.fredoneverything.net/Indians.shtml
And this is even better. And it is eight years old!
http://www.equaljustice.ca/cgi-bin/forum.cgi/noframes/read/11645
Exactly...Many many politicians would be up the creek without the enemedia, the Net is slowly changing some of that now. :)
Authorized, equipped, and commanded to.
Deu 11:18-21
Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 19 Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 20 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates, 21 so that your days and the days of your children may be many in the land that the LORD swore to give your forefathers, as many as the days that the heavens are above the earth.
My daughter has home schooled her three and she fortunately lives in a district that assists in home schooling, it kind of makes it the best of both worlds.
Great article. Reminds me of 1 Corinthians 12:21.
“And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.”
I would disagree with Sowell on this. The reason the millions of individuals, firms and families do better than central planners is the individuals, firms and familiers are much greater experts on their tastes, income and profits than any central planner could possibly be.
So the experts are right in this case, it is more matter of confusing who the experts are. Central planners can not possibly be more expert in your life or firm than you are.
The goal of central planning is not to provide the individual with what they want.
On the contrary, it is to force choices onto the individual that the planners deem to be superior to the choices that the individual would make if free to do so.
Road to Serfdom - FA Hayek
LOL! So true, so true and well put by you in re Mr. Sowell.
Without hesitation I would agree.
Great editorial!
(a) professionals do so poorly, it isn't hard to best them.Which one do you think is the case? Homeschooling children not just for minimum standards but for excellence and high achievement is a task that is nearly beyond the capability of a family with two wage earners. Homeschooling that feeds on an "I can do it myself" attitude may easily deprive itself of one of the lessons of economics that even Sowell must know very well: division of labor.
(b) amateurs do so well, making professionals obsolete.
The best professors I had made their money in the real world, then taught as an afterthought. They knew when to throw theory in the textbooks out the window.
Most of the home schooled kids my family has met have been very strange kids. Their academic attainments vary but I would guess that as a group they are significantly better than average.
The social weirdness is another thing, but maybe it sorts itself out when the child becomes an adult and enters the world of work and society.
I think home schoolers probably learn better because of the lack of harmful peer influence, but not all peer influence is harmful and some may even be essential in developing a normal personality.
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