2006-11-26 11:44:25 · 7 answers · asked by penguin 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Couldn't we get education without forced schooling?
Our presidents and famous inventors didn't go to high school and turned out alright. So why can't we?
2006-11-26 11:51:39 · update #1
Because without it everyone would be illiterate and lack the social skills necessary to succeed in life. =)
2006-11-26 11:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by Seung Hee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, this a very sensitive subject. I feel life is the only school we need. We have lost touch with our surroundings and our past. Adults can not handle their children and send them to "day care" basically, and our children do not wish to learn. "You can not teach those whom do not wish to learn". Seems to me at times, its a waste of tax payers money.
I believe in home schooling, when the schools have to remove things like words from the "pledge of allegiance" and "rewrite history" just so they don't offend persons from other countries or religions.
Agreed teachers are not getting paid enough to go through this abuse, yet on the other hand, some children look up to some of these teachers and the teachers turn around "feeling all powerful" abuse or misuse their authority to take advantage of the children.
It is something to think about.
2006-11-26 20:09:24 · answer #2 · answered by Not Applicable 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Attending public school is NOT mandatory, there are options such as homeschooling, private schools, or magnet schools
2) Initially American public schools were designed on a model of the Prussian public schools, mandated so that the government could insure the creation of a populace that is educated not only to care for themselves financially and socially, but as John Taylor Gatto says they were "Built to supply a mass-production economy with a docile workforce, they ask too little of children, and thereby drain youngsters of curiosity and autonomy. Tougher discipline, more standardized tests, longer days, and most other conventional solutions are laughably short of the mark. "We need to kill the poison plant we created," Gatto has written. "School reform is not enough. The notion of schooling itself must be challenged." His alternative: to get rid of institutional mass-production schools, allow every imaginable experiment to blossom, make free public libraries universal, and expand hands-on apprenticeships."
Read a great interview from him here:
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/40/wf_gatto.html
and even better, read some of his books like 'Dumbing Us Down'
2006-11-26 21:42:30 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because without schooling, you would not learn anything, and if you didn't learn our society would die. That Ipod you like would not exist if you were not forced to go to school. Everything you see around you is there because people went to school and learned how it works and how to make it better.
School is necessary for our society to grow and to prosper.
2006-11-26 19:52:27 · answer #4 · answered by Ted 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's for your own protection. If you don't learn about basics, you could get screwed over later in life. Education helps you be in control of your own destiny.
2006-11-26 19:52:46 · answer #5 · answered by northernbornsoutherner 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you a potential president or inventor?
2006-11-26 19:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So the general populace doesn't ever elect an idiot like George W. ever again ....
2006-11-26 19:52:09 · answer #7 · answered by Pamela G 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋