Homeschooling


  • A public education classroom with the students all having negative opinions about their experience.

    This is Education?

    Some thoughts from students in a classroom from well before the turn of the century. A new quote from one Lucius Brockway in Ralph Ellison's novel Invisible Man. Saw an owl this morning.

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  • Kids swimming in a river that says PUBLIC EDUCATION on the surface. The river's polluted. They shouldn't swim in there. It's okay. It's only 6 or 7 hours a day. Mom! When can we go home?

    The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith

    The question about school should not be, “Why don’t students learn?” Rather the question should be, “What are students learning?” In Frank Smith’s The Book of Learning and Forgetting he asserts that students are always learning. They can’t help but learn, none of us can. We’re learning all the time, but not everything learned is…

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  • Teacher in front of a class. What are we learning today, Ms. Smith. How to squash your critical thinking, creativity and independence. That's what we learn every day.

    Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

    A book about schooling and education. Plus two new cartoons.

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