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I'm going to state a very strong opinion here and know that it will backfire: families should be educating their kids themselves, and society should make this f

by cheez 8y ago

I'm going to state a very strong opinion here and know that it will backfire: families should be educating their kids themselves, and society should make this financially possible (let's start off with eliminating the dual-income family). Teachers, as they are currently qualified, should be adjuncts to the family school.

andrei_says_ 8y ago
I really like this concept, possibly combined with unschooling. Expert tutors, on demand, to provide help where needed.
- cheez 8y ago
  It's how I view educating my kids right now. As a single dad though, it's very hard to do all of it. Society needs to rebuild the nuclear family first. Good luck with that.
kaitai 8y ago
That's what we've done with literacy in the US for the past few decades and literacy rates have decreased. An abject failure. What a terrible idea for society -- religious zealots only teaching their children one religious book (whichever one they like), people afraid of math teaching their children to be afraid of math, thespians only teaching theater, violinists whose children never get to try cello.... parents who don't speak English doing what exactly in English? It works fine if you're a shoemaker teaching your kid to make shoes. But I've seen what my kid learns from her teachers and peers. It is really fun and stuff I'd never come up with.
- cheez 8y ago
  Isn't the US the country spending the most, per-capita, on education? I don't see how your claim follows. In any case, given the company, you're probably well off, live in a high property tax area and have good public schools.
  - therealdrag0 8y ago
    Wouldn't you expect us to be at the top of list, when our average incomes are also top of the list, and a very large country?
thatfrenchguy 8y ago
And then you repeat endlessly education inequalities.
- cheez 8y ago
  I guess you're saying that if we create a society in which parents care about educating their children, that socioeconomic factors would be a primary determinant of success? If so, I don't really see how that's different now.

by cheez 8y ago

andrei_says_ 8y ago

I really like this concept, possibly combined with unschooling. Expert tutors, on demand, to provide help where needed.

cheez 8y ago
It's how I view educating my kids right now. As a single dad though, it's very hard to do all of it. Society needs to rebuild the nuclear family first. Good luck with that.

kaitai 8y ago

That's what we've done with literacy in the US for the past few decades and literacy rates have decreased. An abject failure. What a terrible idea for society -- religious zealots only teaching their children one religious book (whichever one they like), people afraid of math teaching their children to be afraid of math, thespians only teaching theater, violinists whose children never get to try cello.... parents who don't speak English doing what exactly in English? It works fine if you're a shoemaker teaching your kid to make shoes. But I've seen what my kid learns from her teachers and peers. It is really fun and stuff I'd never come up with.

cheez 8y ago
Isn't the US the country spending the most, per-capita, on education? I don't see how your claim follows. In any case, given the company, you're probably well off, live in a high property tax area and have good public schools.
- therealdrag0 8y ago
  Wouldn't you expect us to be at the top of list, when our average incomes are also top of the list, and a very large country?

thatfrenchguy 8y ago

And then you repeat endlessly education inequalities.

cheez 8y ago
I guess you're saying that if we create a society in which parents care about educating their children, that socioeconomic factors would be a primary determinant of success? If so, I don't really see how that's different now.