Jan. 16, 2009 - More HS Encouragement

"Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it?  That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."

John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

This really resonated after reading the story about the girl who was arrested in ID.  Is it only homeschoolers who get that the rule of no cow hoodies in the classroom is a ridiculous waste of rules?  But we must control the children.  If one child wants to be unique from the others, that might throw a wrench into the works.  Kids might all want to be individuals with their own ideas and preferences.

Jan. 17, 2009 - Untitled Comment