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rzetlin wrote on 2010-04-24 15:31
YouTube - Unschooling Vs. Homeschooling Vs. Formal Education
This goes beyond Home Schooling.
The basic premise of "unschooling" is to let your kids do whether they want at home and hope they will follow their passion.
I can't tell you how wrong unschooling is.
First, the majority of kids do not have the discipline to learn on their own.
Second, what kind of job would these kids get when they grown up?
(You can forget about McDonalds because the unschool kids are completing against teenagers with high school education)
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Chiri wrote on 2010-04-24 15:39
.-. So there might be a huge band of illiterate people who can't even add?
Uhm... Well, less competition for me in the job market.
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BobYoMeowMeow wrote on 2010-04-24 16:07
Fail.
The world has already been established to where it's impossible to get anywhere without attending school or education.
People like Bill Gates are an exception because they know what they're doing.
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Osayidan wrote on 2010-04-24 16:17
Bill Gates only got to where he was because his father had lots of money already and lent him some to do his microsoft stuff.
If he hadn't had that funding he would have gone nowhere and we'd not have blue screens of death.
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EndlessDreams wrote on 2010-04-24 16:39
Those kids will grow up to do really crappy jobs. Either that or they do illegal jobs.
Maybe someday, they will regret it, and work really hard in school later.
Unschooling, like certain other ideologies, is designed to move humanity a step backward... toward the Middle Ages.
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Lan wrote on 2010-04-24 17:01
Wow the world is really getting stupider.
I thought it was against the law NOT to go to school?
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Laconicus wrote on 2010-04-24 17:02
If this was like a dictatorship where your jobs are chosen for you or something like that, this might work pretty well. But the problem with this is that kids usually don't know what they want to do until they go to college. Even then some aren't entirely sure and drop their majors and take new ones. Take me for example. When I was a kid I liked writing books so I wanted to be an author. Now I hate writing. Then I got into programming and wanted to be a programmer. Now I like studying Japanese and want to do something with it. I'm 17, in college, and don't really know what I want to do yet. Imagine if I did unschooling, I'd be writing right now!
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Axx wrote on 2010-04-24 17:28
The counter-argument! Well not really.
[video=youtube;rUigTQ7S76E]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUigTQ7S76E&feature=player_embedded[/video]
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-04-24 17:34
Nel wonders how that would turn out.
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Mrlucky77 wrote on 2010-04-24 17:48
Quote from EndlessDreams;17448:
Those kids will grow up to do really crappy jobs. Either that or they do illegal jobs.
Maybe someday, they will regret it, and work really hard in school later.
Unschooling, like certain other ideologies, is designed to move humanity a step backward... toward the Middle Ages.
Thus the term
UNschooling
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NewbieNub wrote on 2010-04-24 17:52
Well, to be serious...
Nothing much that I've learned till now has been used in any jobs I was in.
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Lan wrote on 2010-04-24 17:57
I like textbooks...(other than Math)
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Kazuni wrote on 2010-04-24 17:58
Nel doesn't wike school.
She just wants a pwetty name on her wesume.
Otherwise she'd skip evewything.
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MagitekKefka wrote on 2010-04-24 18:40
I'm not going to lie: I would love to not be bound by the traditional schooling system. My interests lie in Computer Programming and Higher Mathematics, so not having to waste time on History, Literature, and Latin would be a godsend. One of the problems with this "unschooling" is that people are letting their kids do whatever they want before they develop a passion for something. In my opinion, if a child is passionate enough about certain subjects, they should be able to change to unschooling during the late high-school years. I realize this is a fallacy of arguement, but I really want to punch these people who start unschooling in early elementary school in the face
Kind of off topic: I'm pretty sure you can't grow pickles. You can, however, grow cucumbers.
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Lan wrote on 2010-04-24 18:45
The only thing I hate about school is the not having freedom of sleep.