Re:An Unschooling Manifesto
by ahoyhere on Sunday April 26, 2009 @06:55PM
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OK guys, since this conversation comes up every single time...
Yes, public school systems can be very good, and tailored to individual students. Look at Scandinavia, especially Finland and Sweden.
Yes, lots of people do extremely well without structure and authority figures breathing down their backs.
Yes, teachers are underpaid, and yes, paying them more will not solve the fundamental issue.
Yes, unschooling kicks ass, and no, your excuses don't really make sense.
No, you don't need to keep rehashing your story to defend your choices or whatever, will you please take the chip off your shoulder already. It's the internet, nobody knows (or cares) that you dropped out, or that you stuck with it and graduated.
Yawn.
And if you're going to debate - on the Internet - you might want, in the spirit of hacking, to brush up on the material on the topics that already exists by eminent people who've spent much longer thinking about it than you. E.g. if you haven't read John Holt & John Taylor Gatto & Jean Piaget[1], why are you bothering to write?
[1] On the other hand, I will accept novel theories about why all these men are named John.
Yes, public school systems can be very good, and tailored to individual students. Look at Scandinavia, especially Finland and Sweden.
Yes, lots of people do extremely well without structure and authority figures breathing down their backs.
Yes, teachers are underpaid, and yes, paying them more will not solve the fundamental issue.
Yes, unschooling kicks ass, and no, your excuses don't really make sense.
No, you don't need to keep rehashing your story to defend your choices or whatever, will you please take the chip off your shoulder already. It's the internet, nobody knows (or cares) that you dropped out, or that you stuck with it and graduated.
Yawn.
And if you're going to debate - on the Internet - you might want, in the spirit of hacking, to brush up on the material on the topics that already exists by eminent people who've spent much longer thinking about it than you. E.g. if you haven't read John Holt & John Taylor Gatto & Jean Piaget[1], why are you bothering to write?
[1] On the other hand, I will accept novel theories about why all these men are named John.