Dismantle Public Education
The real reason our standards in education are falling isnt lack of money but a government monopoly.
Learn of the libertarian alternative that could save our children
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The real reason our standards in education are falling isnt lack of money but a government monopoly.
Learn of the libertarian alternative that could save our children
Duration : 0:9:59
[youtube Swl8frWSNEQ]
@zoticus1 Tantrums …
@zoticus1 Tantrums are just one way a child reacts to someone bothering them, a need not met. This is usually caused because they do not have the knowledge on how to handle the situation, or more likely, the parent is being unrealistic in the name of mainstream parenting. Usually tantrums are caused by the parent unable to fulfill their child’s needs.
@zoticus1 Actually …
@zoticus1 Actually instead of throwing insults why not go do some research on the psychology you seem to think you know. Buy a gun? There should be a psychological examination to determine if one can buy a gun, if they pass then they can buy one, age doesn’t matter (though most children would fail thereby dismantling your straw-man) Same with driving, a test anyone can take, if they pass they get their license. Most kids would fail, if they didn’t they can drive.
@zoticus1 well that …
@zoticus1 well that all depends on what you want out of your kids. Do you want them to conform to social norms, most of which do not make sense, or do you want them to make their own decisions. You obviously never questioned how you were raised or questioned society in regards to children.
so you would allow …
so you would allow an emotionally undeveloped person to do ADULT things like buy a gun?!
Or perhaps we should allow a ten year old to drive on highways and such.
FOOLS children are called such for a reason and the lack of emotional control expressed in TANTRUMS shows undeveloped and erratic behavior.
Guess you know nothing about psychology do you?
Well if you allow …
Well if you allow your children to disobey you and do not show your authority then your children will overrun your house and become wild.Thats not to say you have to be tyrannical about it.They have to have boundaries to be well rounded and behave decently. You obviously have no children.
@GNAA9000 I don’t …
@GNAA9000 I don’t either. Have you ever read any John Holt?
@UnschoolingEagle
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@UnschoolingEagle
Oh yeah, I agree. I would never do them personally.
I just don’t think it’s fair for the state to discriminate age wise who gets to do certain things.
@GNAA9000 Basically …
@GNAA9000 Basically I agree with you. I just feel the use of drugs (mainly hard drugs such as heroine) is a cover up for a deeper problem.
@GNAA9000 Yes drugs …
@GNAA9000 Yes drugs and children might be the second most touchy subject. In most cases, a young child (most likely under 13 or 14) will have no interests in drugs, especially drugs such as heroine. Usually the use of drugs come from problems that are very difficult to solve in the child’s life, sex abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, many other things. So they turn to drugs to hide from the pain. We need to focus on helping the cause.. not banning drugs, which does nothing.
@UnschoolingEagle
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@UnschoolingEagle
I was having this argument with someone else about youth rights.
I’m 17, and someone was advocating drug legalization which I support, but then they said only for 18+.
And I didn’t like that because rights belong to individuals not groups. That’s like saying blacks can’t do certain things because of their race.
And yes. I support letting children purchase heroin. If it doesn’t harm you directly, mind your own business.
@UnschoolingEagle
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@UnschoolingEagle
Agreed. Compulsory education is wrong. All individuals own themselves regardless of age.
Basically I don’t …
Basically I don’t like the fact that the video is saying, “hey children are not property of the government! but they are the parents property.” Regardless of what anyone may think, no one has the right to force their beliefs on the child, not even parents, regardless of how popular the notion is, it doesn’t make it right.
I liked this video …
I liked this video up until they mentioned how parents should have the power that teachers undermine. A child should be free to make their own decisions, not to bend to the authority of teachers OR parents. We can’t fault schools for making children bend to authority, and then go and say parents can do this, just because… both are wrong.
have you never …
have you never heard of the debate between free education and compulsory education?
do you know what …
do you know what taxes are? did you know that some people don’t want to pay them?
Not only do I not …
Not only do I not know what you’re responding to, I don’t even know what you’re saying. Gotta love the innernets.
i think its true to …
i think its true to say that most parents want ways of providing education for their children. but you are then jumping to the conclusion that public education is freely paid for. these are completely separate issues and to conflate them is absurd. if interstitialofficial’s claim were true there would be no taxes.
@mrstrings2006 …
@mrstrings2006 Schools were invented in Prussia in the 1800s as a form of people management. A society that would be prosperous in the new industrial society and have a good strong military is one where people are obedient, predictable, dependent. That’s what school teaches. The only thing you learn in school is how to obey orders. Growth and learning are as natural as breathing. It can’t be stopped, just perverted. It’s like walking and talking – no school marm is needed. Just supportive adults
@keybobrob It …
@keybobrob It doesn’t matter that they’re this or that kind of teacher. No one learns and grows well because of a teacher, but because of stable and supportive home lives. Schools are day care centers playing at being something more. It’s the most radical social experiment of the 20th century next to the Russian revolution. Schools were instituted because of the industrial revolution, not because of an understanding of how growth and learning work. It’s not about education.
@keybobrob Sudbury …
@keybobrob Sudbury schools are a Lord of the Flies scenario, huh. Did you learn that kind of argumentation in school?
It’s too much more a complicated situation, because we’re not talking about something that is a good idea in the first place. It’s like talking about prison reform for prisons that have all innocent people in them. There is really rather a bigger issue than whether or not there is monopoly control of them.
Start with a simple question. Why do you think coercion is necessary?
Most of them want …
Most of them want to pay for it, because they think it’s necessary. If they knew that it wasn’t, they wouldn’t send their kids there, and paying for it or not becomes a non-issue.
PS…i’ve taught …
PS…i’ve taught about a couple of decades in private and public schools…i see first hand the intellectual mediocrity that is pushed by administration in public schools…and i also know countless teachers who have no business teaching students!!!!…but the unions protect them. Unions are important TOO..but the question becomes,..what sorts of things should they really be involved in..the video makes a great point about teacher’s unions..perhaps overally generalized…but valid none-the-less.
“MAYBE… its …
“MAYBE… its designed”????…
Thnx, thisisbunk, . …
Thnx, thisisbunk, …seems that interstitial missed the point. Never ceases to amaze me how two people can look/listen to the same thing and come away w/ such diametric conclusions. If one were 2b unpartial it seems clear that ur overall synopsis is as close2 “dead on” as one could state. The video is not advocating an education version of “Lord of the Flies” scenario…virtually leaving kids 2their own vices..but recognizing that monopolies of this sort are anti-intellectual. Dismantle it!
the point isn’t to …
the point isn’t to free kids from school. that’s up to the parents. its about freeing education from the gov’t, and the people from having to pay for “services” they don’t want to pay for.