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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Unschooling (Left-Handed-Hummingbird)
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:19:51 -0700 (PDT)

James: you asked " And your control group for this would be ...... whom?"
how 'bout a blasted continent....G-d save Africa......no longer waiting for
Godot or B.F. Skinner....bobford


--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:
look
> how many times you all have brought up, "Well, if this
> or that person, or this
> or that group, wasn't compelled to attend school ...
> doom, disease, pestilence
> would be the result!!"
>
> And your control group for this would be ...... whom?
>
> On the contrary, the evidence is crushingly, overwhelmingly
> that left alone,
> children learn what they need to know. Confinement,
> regimentation, testing,
> and all such are utterly unnecessary unless you have some
> other goal in mind
> besides the academics.
>
> The evidence is that the parents' level of education,
> the value parents place
> o education, and the child's cultural and academic
> surroundings don't really
> have a lot to do with it. Given the opportunity to seek
> out what they need to
> know, children will seek it, find it, and learn it with a
> far, far better
> success rate than schools have.
>
> IF THEY HAVE NOT BEEN CONDITIONED TO BELIEVE OTHERWISE.
>








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