Website review: What If Public Schools Were Abolis...
jiml27 discovered this in K-12 Education
•5 reviews since Apr 7, 2008
education, educational-alternatives, private-education
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jiml27 discovered 3 months ago- This would be the absolute best solution to the problem of educating our children. The state is not capable of turning out well educated, non-state dependent people.
- DickBeldin rated 8 weeks ago
- Only the parents are responsible for a child's education. Neither the church nor the state nor any corporation can be trusted to act in the child's behalf. If parents can act as beastly as some parents do, imagine how a religious leader, a politician or a CEO can treat a child.
- Maxismax rated 3 months ago
- I found this great article by Lew Rockwell over at Dave's place. He's singing my song when it comes to public education. I'm consistently amazed that we Americans can keep clinging hopelessly to models that don't work. I've always felt like we were a country of innovative, clever, adaptive people...yet here we are .
- aliasinkhorn rated 3 months ago
- 'At first, the new schools will be modeled on the public school idea. Kids will be there from 8 to 4 or 5, and all classes will be covered. But in short order, new alternatives will appear. There will be schools for half-day classes. There will be large, medium, and small schools. Some will have 40 kids per class, and others 4 or 1. Private tutoring will boom. Sectarian schools of all kinds will appear. Micro-schools will open to serve niche interests: science, classics, music, theater, computers, agriculture, etc. There will be single sex schools. Whether sports would be part of school or something completely independent is for the market to decide. And no longer will the "elementary, middle school, high school" model be the only one. Classes will not necessarily be grouped by age alone. Some will be based on ability and level of advancement too. Tuition would range from free to super expensive. The key thing is that the customer would be in charge.'
- metally79 rated 3 months ago
- "Murray N. Rothbard's Education: Free and Compulsory explains that the true origin and purpose of public education is not so much education as we think of it, but indoctrination in the civic religion. This explains why the civic elite is so suspicious of homeschooling and private schooling: it's not fear of low test scores that is driving this, but the worry that these kids aren't learning the values that the state considers important."
