[extropy-chat] education

Ned Late nedlt at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 00:29:38 UTC 2005


I know i'm over limit for posting, but this is v. important to me. What would you say to children being allowed to specialize? Now they might end up too narrow-focused yet would you rather have children who are illiterate or children who are somewhat narrow-minded? Specialization might be worthy as a trade-off. If public schools taught each child one subject well, a subject the child had been tested to show he or she had greater proficiency at, and had the parents or tutors teach the child the other subjects, then public education might be effective (since too many families, again, want school to be a baby sitting service). And/or we could have private schools augmented by homeschooling & tutors.
Let's not blame teacher's unions excessively, the parents have the ultimate responsibility.


>Now shall I rant: Compulsory uplifting for all!





		
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