Female anchor confronts Ron Paul over plan for women to quit work en masse and home school (via Raw Story )
BBC anchor Katy Kay on Thursday asked former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) if his libertarian plan to have 20 percent of children home schooled made sense because so many women would have to drop out of the work force, but the former congressman insisted that…
Paul said he wanted to offer families an education alternative that emphasized “the importance of the individual versus, you know, everybody coming together.”
ReplyDeleteSocialization? That' s socialism. Instead, train children that sharing is a sin against Saint Ayn.
I don't want to create the impression that I am against home schooling, just the idea that individualism is somehow superior to "coming together."
ReplyDeletePlus, quality home schooling is much more challenging than Dr. Paul makes it out to be. Success in the world is hugely dependent on the quality of education along with social skills.
Yes Tom, but the paul/reporter interaction is nevertheless a totally failed discussion of a potentially useful topic.
ReplyDeleteThey both miss the point. How to actually arrive at a more informed AND PRACTICED electorate.
It's never this or that. It's always a distribution of methods always being tried, in a Selection Market. We NEED the diversity, not ideological certainty. Neither do we need blanket condemnation of everyone.
Rather, we need acceptance of acceptable variance. Our job is only to keep track of social tolerance limits which we can't survive.
If we can survive WalMart (so far), we can certainly survive some spectrum of home<-->charter<-->public schooling.
If we want the USA to remain a melting pot, we have to allow time and freedom for everyone to both diverge from and melt back into median approaches.
Quote: "Paul said he wanted to offer families an education alternative that emphasized “the importance of the individual versus, you know, everybody coming together.”
ReplyDeleteHow will the value of individuality be brought to light unless people come together so that opportunities to illuminate fine qualities so that they are recognized?
Ron Paul isn't talking about expressing individuality but creating a culture of alienation and social disengagement so they people will forgo their true powers of individual reason and surrender to the wims of the plutocrat controlled " free market."
I'm saying this out of personal experience as I was homed schooled as a libertarian Christian conservative and I am still trying undoing the psychological damage caused by this dangerous movement.
If Progressives had fought for justice instead of a government-backed counterfeiting cartel for the rich balanced by shoddy socialism for everyone else, Ron Paul and other loonies would have little traction today. Indeed, Ron Paul might be quite content with society.
ReplyDeleteBe ashamed Progressives! Many people hate you so much that kooks seem better by comparison!
I think most people know that I like Ron Paul, even though I don't agree with everything he says. I've got my doubts about home schooling and I wouldn't want to do it, but my daughters were fortunate enough to attend a pretty good local public school system. However, the home school movement wouldn't be getting so much traction if public education wasn't doing such an appallingly poor job of educating young people. Somewhere along the line, 20, 30 or 40 years ago public education in the U.S. became more about employing people than educating the young. Roger Erickson is dead on in advocating more diversity in education.
ReplyDeleteI have friends that have successfully home schooled and so I know something about the level of commitment and ability it takes. It's not for everyone. Plus it is costly, since parents have to forego at least some earning power.
ReplyDeleteI think that home schooling is probably most suitable for exceptional kids that are just going to be bored in school being restricted to the average pace when they can and should be running far ahead.
Home schooling for the purpose of indoctrination is deadly.