If you have a picture in your mind of home-education meaning that the
learning goes on at home, think again. Home is a great place for reading
books and studying, but there is a big wide world out there for the kids to
explore. When a child spends their formative years out and about in the
general community and learning social behaviour by that example, they
generally end up better socialised than a child who was penned in for all
those years. Don't you think ?
Some discussion and resources on research in USA on this issue can be found
at
http://learninfreedom.org/socialization.html
Grant Sparks
grant@sparks.to
-----Original Message-----
From: Fireeye978 <Fireeye978@aol.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Wednesday, 20 May 1998 14:44
Subject: Re: Home education and extropians
>In a message dated 98-05-18 21:11:45 EDT, grant@sparks.to writes:
>
><< I'd be interested to hear (off-list if you prefer) if anyone else on
this
> list are home educating their children or know of anyone who is >>
>our daughter is only 2 1/2 so it isn't yet a big issue...but i'd like too.
my
>wife is concerned about the lack of social developement supposedly
associated
>with home schooling... any thoughts or data on that, Grant?.. Cori
>