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We have been home educating our four kids. The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does
by joelhooks 14y ago
We have been home educating our four kids. The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does math, etc. He isn't handicapped by our abilities or knowledge because we provided him with tools to learn. We've made it clear that his education is ultimately his responsibility. It is his job to learn. We serve as mentors and facilitators by providing opportunity.
The other three are on the same trajectory. I understand that you essentially discounted HN parents as exceptions, but we are also part of a broader community and I see similar results with children whose parents have no clue as to what a HN is.
None of them know haskell, but the oldest is working through The Little Schemer.
- jiggy2011 14y agoIt's like most libertarian style ideas, fine when applied to the educated middle class but a disaster if you tried to apply it in a ghetto.
- socillion 14y agoFrom personal experience, I would say optimizing for higher IQ at the cost of lower EQ to the extent that homeschooling makes possible is a very poor tradeoff - and it is also an extremely easy one to make. > The oldest is 15, enjoys poetry, plays basketball competitively, likes to tinker with computers, reads history, does math, etc. FWIW, that sounds like me at 15 and I regret having been homeschooled.
- joelhooks 14y agoAt 15 I was learning how to binge drink, smoke weed competitively, disrupt class, and use my fists offensively/defensively. So ya, I might have some advantage in the EQ department, but I regret having blown my youth in school.
- joelhooks 14y agoShould also add that we don't "force" home education, we discuss it regularly and he's the primary decision maker in terms of what to do for high school.