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Agreed entirely. The goals of our factory system education are not in the best interest of the individuals participating. We home school largely for that reason
by finder83 6y ago
Agreed entirely. The goals of our factory system education are not in the best interest of the individuals participating. We home school largely for that reason...I want my children, both our boy and girls, to have individual creative thought, to explore the world, to rough-house, and to not just be a "good citizen" of society. Good citizens rarely make the world a better place.
I want them to challenge, think, be introduced to the complexity and darkness of history, be able to creatively write and imagine, and to not fall in line with whatever the societal expectations and agendas are for the week.
- ryandrake 6y agoCareful though. Go too far in the opposite direction from “rule following good citizen” and you get conspiracy believers, YouTube Do-Your-Researchers, and Anti-Maskers. There needs to be a middle ground.
- rowanG077 6y agoI very much doubt those two concepts are related.
- finder83 6y agoSure, but to me that's on a different spectrum/axis from being independent thinkers. Both extremes on the axis of being a good citizen or being a conspiracy theorist are still following group think. But that is a concern as well, honestly if my kids are anything like me though they'll be skeptical of anything, particularly anything suddenly popular or extreme.