Where is balance Academic priorities 303
Right, and this is an unsolvable problem. No matter what you learn in life or how, there...
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frustrated emoticon here I've been trying to explain for a thousand posts but can't seem to manage. If a person is not aware of a piece of knowledge, then that person will never learn they need it when they could use it.
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People never use general relativity nor special relativity. Some people even believe that this is all nonsense and refuse to learn about it. However, their lives depend on people who, not only know about it, but use it in their "real life". If the principles and theories are never encountered by home school kids (and in some case they are not), then none of these kids will know that their geometric buttumptions and knowledge are wrong. All their lives they have used Euclidean geometry without any problems. How are they going to know that their real life experiences are based on wrong buttumptions?
But that's just plain not true. After all, it precludes learning by experimentation, as well as the not all that uncommon method of picking up any book at random, in a bookstore or library...
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Sure. But they also have to know areas of knowledge that already exists. If they're never exposed to exotic knowledge, they are doomed to reinventing it. The whole point of a formal education is to learn about what you don't know and wouldn't have imagined that didn't know.
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The existence of that knowledge is of paramount importance.
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I am claiming that both sides of this learning has to be done. Eliminating one part is not a solution nor is it very efficient. From what I'm watching, it's getting downright dangerous.
Did they forget that the knowledge exists? I don't believe that.
Another point: if kids aren't exposed to different areas of knowledge how are they going to find out what interests them the most?
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That is the part that is missing from the educational system which people tried to solve by doing homeschooling. To fill in one gaping gap, the created another gap which I think is more dangerous.
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Learning basic tools so that the person is able to become and be productive as an adult.
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They haven't. He couldn't find examples. There were other problems, too.
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There is also a huge mission creep here; where what was a search for portable guns were extended to knives, and then...
That doesn't work because the activities and other people to interact with are chosen by the same parents who will unconsciously exercise their biases, ignorance, and limited knowledge.
He stated that he couldn't find any examples. The conclusion was that those kids got no exposure to things that he couldn't personally do or explain. This isn't ringing alarm bells?
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