Allen, I apologize, I now see we are both expressing the same concerns from different viewpoints.
The concern issue is "how do we best educate our children" as a society. If it were a perfect world, I suppose that would be by some sort of "injection of knowledge" like polio vaccine. It's both not a perfect world, and not possible. There are smart parents, less than smart parents, smart children, less than smart children, schools follow the same profile. Some do the job well, some do not. The teachers hired and supported by those schools are equally gifted or lacking of gifts for lighting up the thirst for knowledge in the individual student. It is a complex set of problems for which we desire a simple answer.... and lack of effort, surplus of government funds, or the Herculean effort of individual gifted parents or teachers will not "cure stupid". In the words of the Greek, Socrates "The best school is a log.... with a student on one end and a teacher on the other". [in todays world, I would presume that log would be floating in the middle of the Pacific and well out of text or PDA range, so the teacher would have undivided attention of said student] Grant... AZ.... On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Not knowing what they're doing and putting in a poor effort are not the > same thing... > > -Curt > > Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 20:33:08 -0500 > From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Oh Wilton > Message-ID: <m1zkek6pij....@cs.indiana.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > You all are reading past what I'm saying. I am not saying it not > possible to do a good job home schooling. I'm not endorsing public > schools either. I'm saying to do it (home schooling) well is a lot of > work. And I personally know of people who are "home schooling" their > kids and doing them a tremendous diservice both socially and > academically because they don't know what they are doing, they are not > putting in the effort that it demands, and they don't have the resources > to provide a rich educational curriculum. > > Allan > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
