15-05-2022, 09:15 AM
I am in two minds about this kind of stuff, because of my actual parenting experience. I was a huge fan of state education based on my own decades past experience, until I was a parent with a very intelligent curious child who I had home schooled since birth went into that much changed system.
She didn't fit, for a number of reasons and simply abandoned education in her fourteenth year. It was a difficult time, but now, as an adult, she is fine and building a good life for her family.
Having progressed my own learning about the process of education, that sense of discomfort about our state system has only increased. And while I do not hold with the misinformation passed on in the guise of religious education, I am only too aware that learning is a lifelong process, and it is the responsibility of the learner to find the teaching that suits. In the 21st century we are both blessed and hindered by the internet, access to the huge human wealth of knowledge is so much better than it ever was - it is even more true that learning is up to the individual.
Like everything else, it is a choice. Learn, or stay ignorant, and live with the consequences. It really is up to us.
She didn't fit, for a number of reasons and simply abandoned education in her fourteenth year. It was a difficult time, but now, as an adult, she is fine and building a good life for her family.
Having progressed my own learning about the process of education, that sense of discomfort about our state system has only increased. And while I do not hold with the misinformation passed on in the guise of religious education, I am only too aware that learning is a lifelong process, and it is the responsibility of the learner to find the teaching that suits. In the 21st century we are both blessed and hindered by the internet, access to the huge human wealth of knowledge is so much better than it ever was - it is even more true that learning is up to the individual.
Like everything else, it is a choice. Learn, or stay ignorant, and live with the consequences. It really is up to us.