[metmom]

think about it, do you think that kids in the year 500 got up at 7:00 a.m. and went off to school to learn to read and write......their parents couldn't teach them to do so because they, themselves were unable to do it.....it was, as time went by, the Catholic church which pushed forward the idea of community educational facilities...schools, universities, whatever....it was ONLY through Catholic institutions that these things became popular....check it out

Prove it.

You made the claim. YOU back it up.

And do you REALLY think that the pattern of education in our failed government schools is what everyone had for education?

Do you actually have any idea how little time it takes to teach a child to read and write by yourself?

I homeschooled for 12 years and I can guarantee you that teaching children to read and write is not nearly as time consuming or difficult as the government behemoth makes it.

[verga]

TC you would be wise to listen to metmom. She knows everything there is to know about living with out the modern conveniences of home computers. having to fight for your daily survival hunting and killing your food, harvesting your grain to make flour, making your own clothes, etc... Why everyone had Masters degrees and most had Doctorates. /SARC

[terycarl]

Do you actually have any idea how little time it takes to teach a child to read and write by yourself?

probably very little.......if you can do it(read and write) yourself...If you are a parent in the year 500 AD chances that you could read or write your contry's language was practically nil. First of all there was nothing to read....books were in palaces, libraries, and monastaries (Catholic) they were all handwritten and very expensive. There were no newspapersw nor periodicals....local news was forwarded, if at all, by a town crier. You had nothing to write because you had no reason to do so. If you wrote a letter to grandma in Athens, how would you have expected it to get there???

MUCH later in history, as the church helped establish libraries and monastaries where people had access to the written word, educators began to teach using books and written documents. It was not untiltheprinting press was invented that the average person even considered owning a book.