The trailer for a new film titled The War on Kids includes quotes from longtime homeschooling advocates Patrick Farenga and John Taylor Gatto, and it’s been raising reviewers’ eyebrows across the nation, as evidenced by this paragraph in the Nov. 18th New York Times: “Arranged in sections that range from merely interesting to downright horrifying, [...]
[hat tip Jessica]
Out of Australia
AAP reports : ONE of Australia’s leading early childhood educators [*Emeritus Professor Philip Gammage] has warned the Federal Government’s strategy for young children could see them doing worse at school and not being prepared for later life.
“Children don’t need to be taught curriculum, they need quality relationships, quality attachments and [...]
Interesting new video up on You Tube featuring Noam Chomsky regarding The Role of the Educational System.
Noam Chomsky, an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, discusses the goals of education and the purposes of the education system in this video.
I also noted a few thought provoking articles [...]
An editorial from the March-April, 2004 issue of Home Education Magazine:
Over the last twenty years we’ve written many editorials which have explained the virtues of homeschooling with enthusiasm while describing the problems with public schooling somewhat gingerly. We’ve found ourselves in the unenviable position of homeschool advocates who don’t want to alienate readers who may [...]
“The most common – and tragic – misunderstandings related to the questioning of these public school programs have always spiraled around the underlying intentions of those concerned about homeschooling freedoms. Accusations and attacks have derailed many discussions of the issue, and have repeatedly stymied attempts to hold meaningful conversations on the topic. As a result, [...]
