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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Un/homeschooling, Part 3
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:45:07 -0800

For those who are bound and determined that we need public schools to produce doctors, lawyers and scientists, let me give you a list of a just a few folks who would say otherwise:

Francis S. Collins: head of the public portion of the Human Genome Project. Homeschooled, no formal curriculum.

Ivan Illich: "we have come to realise that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school"

Meighan: "A recent MORI poll, commissioned by the Campaign for Learning, found that 90% of adults were favourably inclined towards further learning for themselves.....The bad news is that 75% said they were unhappy and alienated in the school environment and that, therefore, they preferred to learn at home, in the local library, at their workplace - anywhere other than a school-type setting."

Isabel Patterson: "A tax supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state."

John Taylor Gatto: "By bells and many other similar techniques they (schools) teach that nothing is worth finishing. The gross error of this is progressive: if nothing is worth finishing then by extension nothing is worth starting either. Few children are so thick-skulled they miss the point."

Gene Royer: "Homeschooling and public schooling are as opposite as two sides of a coin. In a homeschooling environment, the teacher need not be certified, but the child MUST learn. In a public school environment, the teacher MUST be certified, but the child need NOT learn."

Alexandre Dumas: "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."

Ann Sullivan: "I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less slowly. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself, instead of sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher suggest that he build a stone wall with his wooden blocks, or make a rainbow out of strips of colored paper, or plant straw trees in flower pots. Such teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences."

Plato: "Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better enable you to find out the natural bent of the child."

There are lots more.

Lynda



  • [Homestead] Un/homeschooling, Part 3, Lynda, 06/15/2008

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