why is there a system of schooling instead of private studying?

Answer 1

System of schooling provides the following advantages...


- 'Uniform' is the first step to bring all the children from different religions, class & creed under a common umbrella, which prepares the minds of those children of different culture and social status to feel that they are all equal.

- A group of children will be able to study the same syllabus under the same teacher. Level of learning is left with the children and not with the teacher.

- Children develop the habit of adjusting with different characters and move with different age groups. This helps them to face the world boldly after the completion of their studies.

- Exposed to various extra curricular activities

- Competitive atmosphere is created

These are only a few to name...

Answer 2

In Colonial America and up until the mid 19th century, the home was where the majority of Americans recieved their education. Mothers were the primary teachers. At the time Americans were the best educated population in the World.

There were private schools at that time, but their primary purpose was to educate the children of illiterate immigrants and to act as a secondary source of education. For example, George Washington was classically educated at home, but did attend a local private school for lessons in Greek.

In the mid 19th century a group of progressive thinkers led by Horace Mann sought to introduce a government funded schooling program.

While students in previous generations had been classically educated using the trivium method (Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric) the new school system would teach only the Grammar portion of the trivium.

This was done not to save the state money, but to ensure that the general population was educated, but not too educated.

Mann also led the early Crusade for cumpolsory attendance and succeeded in ensuring that most Americans were educated to the level of the working class, creating an elite based not upon ability to excel but upon the ability to pay for private schools which at the time still taught the Trivium.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I understand that many schools (high school & college) have something called, "Independent Study". They're usually when the student wants to pursue something, but the courses that aren't offered by the school. So the student will take courses under a professor that has a degree under that course.
So as for "private studying", Independent Study is a term often used in schools & by educational facilities.

Answer 4

A lot of immigrants were coming in. We needed to keep them from breeding with our upper classes and we also needed factory workers to keep our Industrial Age machines running.

Thus compulsory schooling was born. Throughout history it has only been used to oppress and train mindless soldiers -Prussian soldiers, trained exactly as schoolchildren are today, would march off cliffs at an order- but people are insisting today the system is different.

It's fine idealogically but the reality is dark and bitter.

Answer 5

In the US, a free and appropriate public education is guaranteed to all citizens. Not everyone has the resources to school privately. Though, as soon as you turn 17, you're free to leave the system :)

Answer 6

John Taylor Gotto, from "How Public Education Cripples our Kids, and Why"

Mass schooling of a compulsory nature really got its teeth into the United States between 1905 and 1915, though it was conceived of much earlier and pushed for throughout most of the nineteenth century. The reason given for this enormous upheaval of family life and cultural traditions was, roughly speaking, threefold:

1) To make good people.
2) To make good citizens.
3) To make each person his or her personal best.

These goals are still trotted out today on a regular basis, and most of us accept them in one form or another as a decent definition of public education's mission, however short schools actually fall in achieving them.

But we are dead wrong. Compounding our error is the fact that the national literature holds numerous and surprisingly consistent statements of compulsory schooling's true purpose. We have, for example, the great H. L. Mencken, who wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924 that the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else.



But what shocks is that we should so eagerly have adopted one of the very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to hamstring the inner life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the populace "manageable."

Answer 7

The constitution I believe states that there MUST be a state sponsored school system, just like a mail service.

Instead wouldn't be the best choice of words. I would say primarily, or preferred over.

Answer 8

The schooling is not only about studies..mugging few answers to get degrees...It is about developng better understanding about the others,society,grooming,developing a self reliant citizen

Answer 9

There is private study!! It is called homeschooling.

Answer 10

ı wish we could have homeschooling in our country too. that is best.