Well then how about a side dish of vouchers?
Anything that breaks the monopoly of the educrats is beautiful, in my opinion.
I agree with your comments but Hate the use of the word “craft” Teaching and raising kids should be “vocations”
Pottery is a “craft”
Kindle and Nook? You'll have to go back a bit further to find your Gutenburg-sized "advance."
And as for the prospect of a "world without teachers," -- the government employee type -- we can only hope.
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I believe with the coming of the smart phone and ipad we are technologically capable of getting rid of the public school system. However, expect the fight of your life if you actually want to do that, because the bureaucracy will be fighting for its life. If not for indoctrination, for the simple fact that their pensions and retirements are a ponzi just like everything else, and require a constant inflow of new teachers to pay for the retirements of the old.
A great story. The e-revolution brings with it the destruction of the foundation stone of modern liberalism, their domination of the education system.
Do you think the masses are going to keep their kids at home when they can send them to school and get free babysitting?
These people hate summer when school is out!
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Well then how about a side dish of vouchers?
Could ebooks bust the college book racket?
That’s a nice thought but it will never happen because there is too much complicity among the teachers unions and state and local governments.
As I said,nice thought.
Man, did you ever hit the nail on the head!
Look at the spread of that simple, but very effective teaching tool, Khan Academy, and the new paradigm they espouse for it.
Learn at home at your own pace, with the ability to go back to steps & concepts you do not fully grasp. Come to class to work your “homework” problems, even collaborating with classmates, while the teacher circulates, observes, corrects...TEACHES!
Until the electronic communications technology is capable of protecting itself from the figurative and literal crushing by the public school system, yours is nice pipe dream. There is evil in society, and some of that evil rests in public school teachers. (Or why else are there lists of school teachers who have had active sexual activities with school children?) Teachers are not going to go away. They will fight, unfairly, dirtily and arrogantly for their perceived rights to public salaries and benefits and, in the cases of some, their own sexual grazing territories.
I have your book on my new Kindle to read next!
I agree with most of your comment, but just had my 14 year old nephew staying with me over Christmas. He is home-schooled, and while there are many obvious benefits (his attitude, etc.), he is not studying with any rigor and is, in my opinion, missing some important topics. He’s good at math, but not really inclined to put in the time and effort to become competent; in other words, a typical teenaged boy.
As a Homeschooling parent, I hope this never happens. Once “they” approve Home Education with Kindle or any type of Media - access to our home will be expected to “ensure” that “all children” receive the “benefit”.
As much as I dislike Public Schooling - in some instances that is probably better for the child than home life. It may be their only chance to escape the System through another branch of the System.
I think we need to start with the flawed premise implicit in the title of the article - that only public school union drones can be "teachers". Getting rid of the education establishment doesn't mean a world without teachers. It means a world without bureaucrats telling us who can and can't be a teacher.
As a man blessed with private Christian education, in college and graduate school at least...and a teacher in a private Christian school, I have to take umbrage with the homeschoolers’ mentality—which seems to assume parental education is the best education. While I agree with you that public education is a disaster and worse—turning the next generation into ignorant non-thinkers, easily manipulated by and for the State, that doesn’t mean its opposite—no schools at all—is best.
For Millennia God’s people have gone to school (Jesus and the Apostles likely did—through the Synagogues) almost always sponsored by the local Church. All of the Ivy league colleges in the USA, and the great medieval & renaissance universities of Europe were founded, funded, and facultied originally by and for...the Church.
Reading books, (or a Kindle) or video-lectures, or just being taught by your parents, in homeschooling....just is NOT the same as a good school. Of course many cannot afford a good Christian school...or none are available in your area, so I completely understand the need for homeschooling—as often it is the best education available. That still does not eliminate the truth that gifted and dedicated teachers can and do share their gifts and knowledge—and the BEST way to do that is in person—in a school.
Still I’ve seen homeschooled kids—brilliant in some areas, but ignorant in others...and who were unable to really relate with people not their close family and friends. Solid Christian schools—with knowledgeable and gifted teachers—and LOTS of parental involvement are—when possible—the best of both worlds, allowing safety and shared values—with conscientious teachers—but, also helping kids have a broader range of learning, and interaction with people not always just like themselves.
I really do not believe ANY device or method—will do away wit the need for a good, personal, education—in Christian schools.
very good article.
My thoughts are...many parents will certainly take this route, and their children will be very well-served.
However, the quality of today’s “parenting” that exists today? This does not give me confidence that this type of tutoring will be widely used in a vast number of broken homes.
So I guess my next question is...what to do about the kids we know will not receive this benefit at home?
How long will it be before the NEA or other teachers’ union will make Kindle et al to pay “union dues” or royalties?
Our small chain of charter schools is growing nationwide and worldwide. As we grow, however, we learn more and more about the state and national regulations that make it almost impossible to deliver a quality education with the time, funding, and teachers available.
Private schools are subject only to the market, not to a vast array of government rules. This article reinforces the thought that perhaps our organization’s goal should to be leverage technology to make private schools affordable to all — and public schools unnecessary.