Date:   11/14/2005 5:01:22 AM ( 20 y ago)
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I want to present a friend with some scriptural insight into parents' requirements to educate their children. Please refer to any you can recall here, in response, please.

I was listneing to George Gordon tonight about Home Schooling. He had a great book from a candidate for Secretary of Education who was not aproved by the Senate over a century ago. That was a great examination of the social ills in the North, as opposed to the South, in the US, on children and an examination of the 2 different systems. I need some scriptural references however. I know home schooling does not have the rape, robbery, extortion, bombings, murder, and etc., etc. that government schools have.

I pointed out to him that just in the last few weeks as I thought about this as I tried to recall how many 'periods' our school day had in high school. As I recall, it was 7 periods. Since we had 6 minutes travel time in a high school with 2000 enrolled, we therefore had 54 minutes class time. If class size is 27, then each student recieves LESS THAN 2 minutes personal instruction per day per class, or less than 14 minutes each day in personal instruction. This formula does not allow any common instuctional time. If a teacher must say "now class settle down", she is taking someones instruction time!

If each class has a combination of personal instruction, common instruction, and time for each student to direct themselves, then each area can recieve at most 18 minutes, or less than 45 secodns of individual instruction for each child. Lastly, as we start to examine time alone, we come to understand that each child is actually relied upon to become educated on their own initiative, and merely instructed to direct the childs' initiative in learning.

Leaving aside the dangers in schools, the instruction time must, necessarily be better when the parents do it. Curiculum, then becomes the one indeterminate. Given the lack of basic reading skills exhibited by the masses, I fail to see how anyone can conclude they are not able to teach their own children. Even the schools do not allow the teacher to set the curriculum, but rather, the teacher is required to follow the book and materials provided, and to augment that in some small way.

I want, however, to know more about Gods' directive regarding educating our children. It is late at night, and I am just rambling.
 

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