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Re: Home Schooling
What's to balance? Before institutional schooling, home schooling was the norm. Now institutional schooling is the norm and home schooling is still an extreme rarity. As for better prospects? For what, exactly? Lots of colleges take home-schooled students as well as institutionally produced ones. Then there are the kids who have done both. I believe Aaron Swartz is one. I believe the prospects for a kid's talents, curiousity, humor, independence, scholarshp and the rest of it -- are far better supported in a home schooling environment where all those qualities are encouraged, than in an institutional environment that is unlikely to do the same. But then, there are surely home schooling environments that suck and institutional ones that encourage and support all those qualities. So, I dunno. I just believe we need to reframe our educational questions outside an insitutional framework that has long provided its own tendentious and self-justifying metrics. There are responses to this message:
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