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November 20, 2006, 9:10 am PST
11/24 Great School Debate
Quote From: spiralweave Not everything is learned in school either - THAT is ridiculous. Think about your life - what you learned in school, what you learned at home, at church, with friends, while travelling. How much of what you learned in "school" has helped you? How much has hurt? (I have friends who only learned they were "stupid" at school because they were late readers and the lack of confidence has haunted them to this day, I learned that the secret to success was being great at taking tests - got me through school but didn't help much when I tried to suceed in the real world). Our school systems were designed to produce factory workers - (really) and they do that remarkably well - but in the world of the future we are going to need all sorts of different kinds of people with all sorts of different skills. We need people who learned both traditionally and non-traditionally - some who are motivated self learners that come from an unschooling background, some with a strong spiritual core that were christian homeschoolers, some with a personalized more traditional HSing background, some from elite charter schools, some from public schools - the mix of different ways of learning is very important. No one way is right and no way is "ridiculous" because there is no possible way that any one type of schooling can produce the "perfect" education for all. I have actually learned most of what I know on my own. But, I am a grown woman with discipline and I sat down and read on the topics I wanted to learn about.
I also learned a lot in school.
I am FOR homeschooling in some situations. Again, the level of defensiveness here is deafening...it makes it very hard to have a conversation with people who are ready to attack any questions or comments.
I am simply stating that the "unschoolers" I know are very very very behind in what they should know. Some of the kids have vocabularies that are barely more advanced than my 2 and a half year old's vocabulary.
Their parents are very much convinced that they will learn all of this in their own time, but I am skeptical...that is all. VERY skeptical.
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