The Education System (mystic, pagan, God)

Jonathan Rex · #1 02-12-2007, 01:47 PM

Do you believe that it is a form of social conditioning (weeding out process) of classifying and categorizing (as well as diverting the growth) of children into becoming adults who become nothing more than a screw in the Capitalist Machine?

Or do you believe that our children are getting the best education that can be offered to them?

MysticSang'ha · #2 02-12-2007, 01:54 PM

Can I pick somewhere between the two extremes?

Peace,
Mystic

Booko · #3 02-12-2007, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Rex

Or do you believe that our children are getting the best education that can be offered to them?

I'm homeschooling our daughter starting this fall.

Some of that is because the education they can provide doesn't fit with her career goals and the time constraints actively interfere with the work she needs to do to in order to pursue what she's good at.

Some of it is because she's not getting the best education that can be offered.

Jonathan Rex · #4 02-12-2007, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MysticSang'ha

Can I pick somewhere between the two extremes?

Absolutely not. It's either black or white. There are no grey areas.

Jonathan Rex · #5 02-12-2007, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Booko

I'm homeschooling our daughter starting this fall.

Some of that is because the education they can provide doesn't fit with her career goals and the time constraints actively interfere with the work she needs to do to in order to pursue what she's good at.

Some of it is because she's not getting the best education that can be offered.

Sounds like a plan. Her career? How old is she?

Booko · #6 02-12-2007, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonathan Rex

Sounds like a plan. Her career? How old is she?

She's sophomore and interested in performing arts, most especially dance and music.

If you're going to have to haul off to D.C. or Ireland for a competition, you have to have a flexible enough schedule to do so and still be able to keep up the grades.

Plus, I'm not at all impressed with the thought of an 11th grade English class where all they do is read novels and discuss them. God forbid they write anything -- that would have to be graded!

Our son is a Senior this year, so I've gotten the skinny on what our daughter would be doing next year. Most of it's twaddle, and the things that are important, we could do a better job ourselves, quite frankly.

Plus, she'll have a chance to study subject essential for critical thinking, such as logic and rhetoric.

Shadow Wolf · #7 02-12-2007, 02:26 PM

I believe the public school system has alot of propaganda built into it. The government textbook I had actually said electorial college for presidential voting is much more fair and ballanced than majority vote, and your vote does count. If everyone's vote counts, then why Kerry get nothing from Indiana?

RevOxley_501 · #8 02-12-2007, 02:28 PM

haha

yea i have seen alot of similar things in my textbooks...

i always tore the history teacher a new one just for kicks though

Shadow Wolf · #9 02-12-2007, 02:39 PM

I argued for countless hours with an intern teacher that the Sociology book is wrong when it claims "Everyone desires to be a part of the "in" group, because they are popular. And that is undesirable to not be a part of the "in" group." Also, we argued for many more hours over issues of whether or not people want to conform to be like everyone else in society, so they don't have to think for themeselves (which was/is my view), or it's just they way society works.
I am honored to say I was this teachers first problem student.

Booko · #10 02-12-2007, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Luke Wolf

I argued for countless hours with an intern teacher that the Sociology book is wrong when it claims "Everyone desires to be a part of the "in" group, because they are popular. And that is undesirable to not be a part of the "in" group."

Hah! That's really a laughable statement. Non-conformists don't come from under cabbage leaves, and they certainly exist.

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I am honored to say I was this teachers first problem student.

I had some college profs that would have considered you their *best* student for doing that.

The "problem" students were the ones who uncritically wrote stuff down as if the oracle had delivered Truth to them.

I had a couple of profs that used to say the most odd things just to see which students dutifully wrote it in their notebooks and which guffawed.