Public Schools and Public Libraries

Brilliant video, castarchival. Very thought-provoking! This topic is one reason why my 16 yr old daughter just started unschooling last week. The censorship in schools is appalling!

Unschooling and loving it! My schedule is my own.

That is why we unschool! Great video!!!!!

That's a terrific video. Good job.
--Michael Grant (Author GONE)

Where does the high school library and HS librarian fall in your experience? Are they more like the public library, the teachers, or something different?

Great video, and great points. You are a rare beacon of light in a world of brainwashed kids.

I sincerely regret the fact that my parents sent me to public school.

People learn the best when you get out of their way and allow them to pursue their own interests. If they have no desire to learn, they will not learn.

What we do in public schools is force students to do time-consuming exercises on material they have no interest in. It is completely ineffective.

wow ignorance

Thanks for your reply. I did understand the metaphor. I like your argument for constructivist learning. Your point about compartmentalization is also well taken, but I still feel that purely self-designed learning might not provide exposure to the very thing that a student might come to find fascinating. I love the tuning example- great way to appreciate geo sequences, logs, and 2^(1/12)! I have to tell you, though, that I know a lot of guitarists who have never pursued this on their own!

To use the equal-tempered tuning scale, you wouldn't know it, but that is a coupling of math, science, and music, as is every single other piece of the instrument. Many guitarists begin to learn musical history and culture. Any one "subject" can never be entirely separated from the rest of the other subjects. Everything is connected.