When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion

Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by cabalamat on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:32AM (#24835078)

> It would be hard to be clearer that the purpose of the “education” system is indoctrination.

You call it indoctrination. Someone else might equally call it social cohesion.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by barry-cotter on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:29AM (#24835782)

Tomato tomato

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:24AM (#24835372)

Call it what you want - it sure isn't critical thinking.

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by thefounder on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:57AM (#24835583)

So homeschooling is "critical thinking" ?

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Re:When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion by StanislavPetrov on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:08AM (#24835653)

My above comment was directed at the two parent comments who were variously referring to public school conditioning as "indoctrination" or "social cohesion". Whatever you choose to call it, public schools (in the United States) do not teach critical thinking - quite the opposite.

Whether or not critical thinking is on the agenda for a homeschooled student depends entirely on the teacher and the curriculum.

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