[ExI] I don't understand students: help !

MB mbb386 at main.nc.us
Fri Dec 19 11:24:42 UTC 2008


>
> I think Dagon wasn't advocated ending educating people. Rather, I read
> him as saying that the institution of school needs to be thrown out,
> replaced with automated self-directed learning that kids could do from
> home, at their own pace, etc etc. So the public could feasibly become
> more educated than ever, just we wouldn't be using internment camps to
> achieve it.
>

Many years ago when my dyslexic son was young and I was fighting the school system,
I read "Summerhill". :)

Autodidact is the ideal. Question: would kids really take advantage of this? Some
would, they already do, but the majority?

Regards,
MB




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