From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 02:07:21 BST
Sam Norton asked:
My wife and I are considering home educating our children, and I was
wondering if there was anyone on the list who had gone down that route
already, or if anyone had particular thoughts on the matter. It would seem
to be a natural progression in one sense from Pirsig's arguments in ZMM.
dmb says:
My wife is a teacher. Our boy is nearly five. So I have a few thoughts.
Ideally, I think you want to educate them at home and at school. Parents and
teachers should be working together. Leaving it all up to an institution is
a big mistake because that can't and shouldn't teach certain things, things
that properly belong at home. Conversely, I think it would be downright
cruel to deprive a child of the social skills they learn in attending public
institutions, which they'll have to deal with in one form or another for the
rest of their lives. Not to mention parties and team sports. It doesn't mean
much to be crowned king of the prom at home with mom and dad. Parents and
teachers can work together directly on lots of stuff, but they also play
very crucial supplemental roles.
Then again I graduated from a public high school without ever reading a book
and only ever did a few minutes of homework on the bus ride, if at all. Not
exactly stimulating. That's my big axe to grind. Maybe I'm just bitter, but
it seems that students have to be challenged and they need to be around kids
who respond to the same level of challenge, no matter what else is in the
formula.
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