tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post1926699884231376386..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: “Forward – Into The Past!”Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-30892239178683385652020-08-18T10:40:24.480-04:002020-08-18T10:40:24.480-04:00"Pods are almost like a 200-year leap backwar..."Pods are almost like a 200-year leap backward in history, delivering us into a time before public schools."<br /><br />That is precisely the point, and their great advantage. Another name for them was "Dame schools".<br /><br />It's not that difficult to teach children; they are learning machines. The main thing is to provide resources, a very modest amount of supervision, then get out of the way.<br /><br />http://strike-the-root.com/homeschooling-is-easy<br />http://strike-the-root.com/how-we-became-homeschoolers<br />Paul Bonneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15279129269584372919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-48999657714403351502020-08-17T20:45:50.779-04:002020-08-17T20:45:50.779-04:00My father, who grew up on a farm, went to one of t...My father, who grew up on a farm, went to one of those one room school houses five miles outside of Eskridge, Kansas (population 500). He showed it to me when I was a young lad in the 1960's. It was still standing, although long abandoned. The education he got there was evidently of good quality, because from that modest and austere environment, he went on to earn a degree in electrical engineering at the University of Kansas in 1923.George Truehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352709031834067303noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-20808141596628239282020-08-17T19:14:45.555-04:002020-08-17T19:14:45.555-04:00"Do you sense that the “educators” feel that ..."Do you sense that the “educators” feel that their rice bowls are being threatened, Gentle Reader? "<br /><br />Come right out and ask the teachers and their unions: "So you are saying you want everyone's children held back because not everyone has their advantages?"<br /><br />I'm sure there's a more stark way to ask the question.Rick Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10992428161064901136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-60092037319217804862020-08-17T16:32:43.320-04:002020-08-17T16:32:43.320-04:00"Achievement gaps" = (1) Basement-level ..."Achievement gaps" = (1) Basement-level "achievement" achieved by the unwillingness to work toward a state of being even minimally motivated. (2) The natural result in any educational institution that tolerates antipathy to "thinking white."Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.com