Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Academy of Ideas"
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@truthhurts79 I learned to read with books I was interested in before going to school. When they did their silly assessments before I started 1st grade, they told me I was reading at the level of a 12th-grader. In my mind, I was thinking, "Sounds like you guys have been doing it wrong." I then asked them, "What grade am I going into if I'm reading at a 12th-grade level?" Some fat lady, "Well, 1st grade of course. You're six years old. Six-year-olds go to 1st grade."
What a waste of time it all was. Good thing I pursued my own interests very avidly every day, regardless of what homework they assigned me. I assigned myself more personal study than any high school or college course ever did, and continue to do so to this day. We have access to insane amounts of information, so people can study whatever they want without restriction. Sitting in a classroom is one of the most detrimental things you can do to your own interests, and will usually lead to a life of disinterest in reading.
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@lvd8122 It's a hybrid where various factions got major votes on what would be taught and how, none of which are the parents.
I. You have the historical Prussian reforms where after they were conquered by Napoleon in 1806, saw that they needed some major changes to their society. Compulsory schooling with smaller classrooms and group-think training were part of the reforms. (They used to have massive darkly-lit factories with rows of tables where the instructor would walk up and down, dictating lessons and exercises. This was shifted to a "smaller" 30 student classroom where the teacher could interact more with students who had questions, but it was still a one-way information flow through a bottleneck. The Prussian reforms were observed and lauded by many thinkers in the US, seemingly-validated after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 where Prussia and Southern Germanic tribal areas defeated the French, then took over much of France. The US Command and Staff General College even adopted Prussian Army theories and officer training after many years of focusing on Napoleonic theory. The reduced classroom size and lecture method live on to this very day from these reforms.
II. Next would be the Kindergarten movement started by Fredrick Fröbel in the Prussian Kingdom from 1816-1851, who lost his mother very early and was neglected by his father, so he spent time playing around the large estate garden with friends, looking at nature, and just being free. His attempt to compensate for lack of a mother was institutionalized into a system where young female teachers lead small groups of children in outdoor activities like nature study and dancing, with some indoor shape-manipulation and "Fröbel's gifts" exercises in spatial discovery. Kindergarten programs are largely ignorant of these methods and history, and merely regress into a preparatory elementary school experience at an earlier age with simple tasks that can all be done easily at home.
III. Then there is the late 1800s John Dewey psychological conditioning method where the classroom and school are supposed to be a model for the "new social order", with no real emphasis on learning classical subjects or any relevant skills, but where children are surrendered to the state to be conditioned as collectivist social justice warriors by "prophet teachers ushering in the true kingdom of God". He was an atheist, self-proclaimed psychologist, with a feminist wife who saw the minds of youth as the perfect tapestry for his vision of a society run according to Marxist and Darwinian principles.
IV. As the industrial era entered its higher efficiency manufacturing facilities in the US, the corporatists with their heavy influence on the House and Senate drove a more dumbed-down society of worker-consumers. Their radio and later TV ads emphasized parental compliance to whatever back-to-school trend was in fashion, with the unspoken reality that your child will be bullied if they don't have the latest styles. This was true with lunch boxes, bicycles, clothes, and later with backpacks, shoes, cars, and now with cell phones. The people determining what was in style worked from glass towers in New York, or filming studios in Hollywood.
Because people are trained to think myopically, where one simply answer nicely wraps up the complex subject they are trying to understand, you'll often hear people refer to school as just a factory worker training program driven by big business kleptocrats, or a Marxist indoctrination center teaching anti-religious and communist political ideologies. All of these are true and more when you dive deep after asking a series of questions throughout your life, then having the perseverance to study and find those answers.
We have a compulsory Prussian reformist, Fröbelian childhood abandonment, Dewinian-Darwinian-Marxist, Kelptocrat-consumerist hybrid system of schooling that somehow mixed together in this unique American experience of individual liberty and family values, which have been pushed aside for the monster to consume us.
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@TheVanillatech I'm tracking all that. One thing to consider are the early childhood development written skills, such as penmanship, art exercises, reading comprehension Q & A, diagramming sentences, geography coloring exercises blended with art techniques, etc.
Many people are looking for coherent developmental plans that take a child from not being able to read and write, to a self-driven educational path.
Parents who were trained to be passive and respond to classroom-based stimuli don't have the on-hand solutions and familiarity with various educational aporoaches and modalities, so they are scrambling to find solutions for their families.
They're capable of creating an environment where actual learning can take place by reaching out and sourcing curriculum from where they choose.
What I've seen looking at free market curriculum companies is that most parents don't think they have time to become a curriculum development specialist, lesson planner, teacher, and long-term evaluator of each child's individual path.
This is what home education models have to tackle, so one of the most common approaches is to seek assistance from companies that specialize in this.
Every educational approach is an experiment like life in general, and many families have already seen enough of the results of public and private schooling to know they aren't interested in repeating those experiments with their children.
Instead of pointing out how insufficient parents are, I think it would help to provide avenues for them as we move forward with the rising generation.
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