'course thats cause I am a lousy writer...ever notice I am also always down on myself?
Anyway very interesting post from a wonderful writer (she knits too .)
"I am angry. The government has just intruded itself upon my notice again, with threats of taking more of my family’s hard-earned living, of taking away even more private property rights, and sucking into its vortex hours and hours of my precious time as it does so.....................................
Decades have gone by, the same tunes are being played now as always. The average citizen on the street knows, instinctively, that it’s bad to give a junkie more of the drug he craves. Why, then, don’t the adults far older than I (and that bear more sway in the system than I) seem to have the least idea that continuing to pour money into the school system is a lousy idea?".............
read more of her thoughts
I haven't read 'teach your own' but I have read other John Holt books, I highly recomend his work.
October 9th, 2006 at 07:48 pm 1160419705
FrugalSon and I had the most interesting exchange this morning on the public school system and the shootings.
Does anybody but me see that CHILDREN themselves will call in a bombthreat in order to get out of that prison of a place? And more and more so as they see the adults around them going into a tailspin at every threat that's made? The kids themselves might just lead the revolution to ending this barbaric practice called public-schooling! So, yes, news anchors keep giving the kids the ideas they need and we'll see so many more bombthreats that soon kids themselves will bring about the public schools demise!
NO FLAMES please - you have your viewpoints and you turned out wonderful - yes I know. My reply would be that you were wonderful to begin with and would have been even BETTER w/o the 12 year lock-down!
Nice piece PrincessPerky! Thanks for posting!!
October 10th, 2006 at 01:23 am 1160439792
October 10th, 2006 at 06:09 pm 1160500149
I've had a few great teachers during my schooling, but they were the expection and I was literally held back from doing better by the red tape and slower learning level of my peers. It's rather sad, and it's just getting sadder.
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