[extropy-chat] Re: Home-schooling

[Max M]

Spike wrote:

>>How is it that so few of us have kids? Or, if indeed many do, 
>>why do we rarely discuss parenting on-list?
>>
>>-- David Lubkin.
> 
> My guess is that parents have little time for luxuries
> such as reading chat lists.  {8-]  spike


Actually I have 3 of them. But there is rarely any reason to discuss 
them here.

But I find that homeschooling is too entropic.

I would be more interested in how we can use a voucher system to improve 
the private schools. Then we can have a better and more varied choice.

It's like everywhere else in life. We are idiots at 90% of what we do, 
and only really good at a few specialised thing. Why should teaching be 
any different? A well educated teacher is an expert. Why should I be 
better at teaching as a private amateur?

Rather I find that as it is now, there is no competition in schooling.

All the new IT is not used at any meaningful level in the school system. 
That is a pity. And as long as there is no competition it never will be. 
Even though education could easily be rationalised and automated at many 
levels.

And then I would not have to stay home in my most "valuable" years on 
the work force.


regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark