If you are a Renaissance Man desiring pleasant changes to society, would you recommend Home Schooling???

Question

Imagine if 25-40% of children could be home-schooled what positive changes would first happen to crowded class-rooms and roads?

Should most First world countries with countless teenagers' problems, crimes, etc adopt this educational life-style?

What are your thoughts on this?

Answer 1

I think Renaissance Men who would like more people to be Renaissance Men would highly encourage homeschooling. School doesn't allow for free exploration of a multitude of topics bearing upon the individual's interests; it's forced input and output according to an outside timeline. The truly genius and Renaissance men of the past did not spend 7 hours a day, 180 days out of the year for 12/13 years on studies dictated by others to become that way.

On the flip side of things... While there are plenty of people not homeschooling out there who would do great homeschooling, I have to admit my cynicism to thinking that 40% of families out there are capable of doing a good job homeschooling. While the problems that have arisen today are probably in large part due to the fact that parents don't get to raise their children as much as they did in the past, it remains that many people are just poor parents and the kids might not be any better off, or might be worse off, being homeschooled.

Answer 2

I think the negative effects are more serious. Kids need to know how to interact with others. School is going to be the major source of social interaction in their early life

Answer 3

"School is going to be the major source of social interaction in their early life"

The key word here is "going to be" - it does not HAVE to be and it is not the ONLY way for children to have social interaction.  Please do a little research before you beat that drum.

Generally people who homeschool do the majority of the teaching themselves, and while they do have some co-op type learning it isn't the main way.

If your goal is to accomplish less crowded schools, why is your first instinct to form more (but smaller) schools? That isn't the way homeschooling works.

As far as crowded roads, around here (NJ) the roads are busy all the time, but what clogs them up are the school buses!  

You cannot force the homeschool lifestyle on anyone, and frankly I would prefer it be left to the self motivated people who do not feel the need to be spoon fed from the common trough.