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05 Oct 09

Taking away the youth of students | The Daily Illini

  • Quality education beats the quantity every day. Instead of having our students sit under the same learning environment for longer and expect them to improve, maybe we need to change that learning environment. Maybe the problem is not with the students. Perhaps it is in the curriculum, or the teachers, or the learning environment, or the class size.

  • One of the best examples of the positives of a smaller classroom size, relaxed learning environment, and shorter hours in the school day are homeschoolers. Being raised in a homeschool learning environment, I can speak first-hand about the positives. I watched my peers and siblings achieve lofty goals. One such homeschool graduate graduated junior college at age 16 and is a college senior at age 18. This is not atypical of the homeschool community.


    Most of my friends are public school graduates. I would argue that each of them is incredibly gifted. Several got full funding to universities and grad school. So, obviously not all hope is lost for the public school system.


    Solutions are never as easy as lawmakers present. And I don't anticipate this will be any different. Adding hours of schooling will not make a big impact on children if we ignore other factors.

19 Aug 09

YouTube - Adolescence as a failed cultural model

The teen age years are a new invention of modern times and they actually hold young adults back. Newt Gingrich has an interesting take on this.

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18 Dec 08

Obama’s plans for your children « Stony Creek Digest

Obama said during the campaign that he believes high school and middle school students should put in 50 hours of mandatory volunteerism. Are they gonna mandate what constitutes "service." My kids are altar servers and sing in the choir putting in approximately 12 hours or so a month? Will that count? Why does this give me a lot of apprehension?

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  • When I read a section of Obama’s “national service plan” to my wife last night, she said it reminded her of her childhood days in Vietnam. Children who enrolled in the the “Uncle Ho Youth” were rewarded with armbands and neckbands, and those who did not participate were socially marginalized. She was one of the few children in her class who didn’t join. She remembers the “Uncle Ho Youth” going about planting trees while chanting communist slogans.
30 May 08

Graduating debt-free : Local : Times Record News

One gal's experience getting a college degree - debt free!

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  • Is it possible for a home-schooled girl from a large Wichita Falls family to attend an expensive college like South Carolina’s Furman University — annual cost $34,000 — and graduate with no debt?



    It is — if you really want to, says Meredith Richmond.



    And she did.

15 May 08

Daughter fails math test, so dad thrown in jail

This is a good reason in my mind to emancipate those adolescent trouble makers... sigh. I hope the daughter can study up this week and take the GED ASAP!

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25 Mar 08

List of Online Archives for Free Unabridged Books Online

The list of all the links for all of the unabridged books - free and online! including audiobooks

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ADD: Alternative Schooling

  • The U.S. school system was modeled
    after German schools created in the 1800's for the express purpose of producing obedient
    soldiers and factory workers (This is true!  I've read it in many different good
    sources). The German system was extremely successful in achieving its goal in Germany and
    was therefore copied by other countries, including the U.S.   The great American
    tycoons and Robber Barons were big supporters of the German system in America since they
    wanted literate but obedient factory workers.  Our schools are operated pretty much
    the same way today in the 1990's as they were back when Thomas Edison was kicked out for
    being "addled." Creativity and independent thought and action were discouraged
    because such traits were problematic in a war or a factory.  Today these traits
    interfere with our cookie cutter, mass production educational system; a bureaucratic
    system which is unable to change itself.
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