Tasine Loc: Southwest US

Of all the arguments public-school advocates have used to hoodwink generations of parents into condemning their own children to years of state-controlled subservience training, one of the most successful is that without public schools, children cannot be properly "socialized," and will therefore be ill-prepared for life in the "real world." Not only is this argument absurd on its face, but that face also reveals the ugliest intention of compulsory schools: the deliberate r****ding of human moral and intellectual development.

Everything in a child's upbringing ought to be focused on the aim of achieving the most successful adulthood. This means finding ways to ignite interests and enthusiasms that will lead him to develop the faculty that defines his chances as an adult, namely reason, and the states of character that will prepare him to face adulthood's vicissitudes and temptations without succumbing to indignity and unrighteousness, namely his moral virtues. This does not mean "taking the fun out of being a child." Nor does it mean expecting children to "think like grown-ups." What it means, rather, is that the fun of being a human child should come precisely, or primarily, from applying one's childlike thoughts and sentiments to the task of learning how to be a grown-up.

Something has gone terribly wrong with the modern world, and public education is at the heart of the problem. The solution will not and cannot come from a publicly educated population. Begin the process of liberating children's souls now, so that in the future there will once again be Thomas Jeffersons and Benjamin Franklins to do what will need to be done.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/03/please_do_not_adjust_your_child.html
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WhoIsJohnGalt

Here's another log for the fire:

http://www.billayers.org/downloads/5696conceptions_of_teaching.doc

William Ayers has dominated our education system since his companions were blown up while mixing explosives. Now is newly adopted strategies are beginning to bear fruit.

woodarch

Amen to that. Children are taught, indirectly, how to study to get the test. It is all about memorizing and regurgitating what the teacher spews out. No critical thinking is involved. My son can spit out fact after fact, but can't deduce how to "connect the dots" between things he has learned.
I am left to "home school" these things in the hope he will be in better prepared.

Tasine Loc: Southwest US

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It's wonderful that you can and do re-educate your children, but look at the millions who have no one at home or anywhere else who can re-educate them. Schools have become the moral cesspool the socialists of decades ago set out to achieve. I'd say "mission accomplished" - the dumbing down is as complete at it can get. We now have ignorant socialists spawning yound dictators who are merely doing as taught, or at the very least as NOT taught.