Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Public, Private or Home Schooling?

By Shirli Kieffer

An associate of mine proclaims that one of the biggest conspiracies in our society is to control the masses through education and media to embrace mediocrity, complacency and to dissuade individuals from attempting to aspire too high, so as not to upset the one-percent applecart.

A popular method used for controlling the masses is to encourage families to hand over their children to the public school system. Parents are led to believe that The State will ensure that their children will receive a quality education. Bertrand Russell once said, "The government distorts the minds of the young and calls it education."
According to John Hospers, “More affluent upper-middle-income families could send their children to pri­vate or parochial schools, which in thousands of cases provide the child with a far better education in 'reading, writing, and arithmetic' than the public schools do. But the parents are forced to pay a high price for this act: while paying tuition to send their children to the private schools, they must also pay taxes to support the public schools which they do not use; thus they are doubly penalized. If there ever was an obvious case of injustice, this is it. Their indignation is, again, understandable and entirely justified. Why should they be forced to support something they want no part of and of which they disapprove?”

Socialization is hailed as one of the greatest advantage of schools. This is the place where the child picks up the rudiments of social skills that help him survive. But in truth, a regular school-going child can interact only with his peers. He may bully younger children or fear older ones. He does not know how to behave with an adult. This is because in the school environment he interacts only with his peers. A homeschooling environment brings in a more natural social environment.
A regular school going child cannot read literature. He cannot keep silent or think in depth about any one thing. The artificial 'busy'ness imposed upon him by the school disallows quiet contemplation. Rowdy and destructive behavior, as seen among peers, is more noticeable in school-goers.

There is little long-standing knowledge among regular school goers because most things are learnt for the exam. There is no correlation of facts with life. The child may know a lot, but understands very little. This is where the homeschoolers beat the regular school goers. Ultimately, homeschoolers emerge more adept at facing the outside world.
Homeschooling may seem like a lot of fun and freedom from the outside. However, things are seldom as simple as they seem. Homeschooling is a lot of added responsibility and hard work. But, if successful, it will forge a strong bond of love and respect between parent and child, while providing your child with the best form of education he needs.

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