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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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.
>