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Posted by Kris Krieger on November 21, 2007, 2:50 pm
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>>>>>> "Pat"> wrote
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's an aspect of homeschooling known as *unschooling* and
>>>>>> this is the process some people go through after leaving the
>>>>>> public prisons, er, schools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Education is not the same thing as the current mess called "the
>>>>> public school system". The current ssytem is a bureaucracy first,
>>>>> and second, and
>>>>> third, and is more of a trianing camp, than an Educational
>>>>> Institution.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've said time and time again that I am willing to pay for
>>>>> children to be *educated* - I am *not* w8illing to pay for them to
>>>>> be merely warehoused for 8 hours and trained to follow orders.
>>>>
>>>> I have to say that learning to follow orders is an important skill.
>>>> In probably 70% of all jobs, that is at least as important as
>>>> reading, math, etc.
>>>
>>> Foloowing directions is not the same thing as following orders.
>>> Directions exist for a reason. Orders fome from an assumption of
>>> authority which demands unquestioning obedience.
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>> Sometimes you have to do something you know to be stupid because that
>> is the way it is.
>
> Well there ya go.
> There's Amy's lifes effort in a nutshell.
> Only do things that are easy, because thats the way they are.
> Well ya know what Amy, that just ain't good enough for some people.
> Its good enough for you, you've admitted it many times.
> But for others, those that make a difference, they will find another
> way. And as for you, and those you hope to keep just like you, good
> fucking riddance.
> The future is for those that are brave enough to reach for it and for
> those of you content with the norm, get outta the way.
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