Would a world without schooling work? How?

Question

Here I'm talking of things like public schools. Where you have rows of chairs and compulsory schooling and testing.

I'm not talking about Education.

Would a world work like that?

What would it take for for it to work?

Would a world where Unschooling and such were the mainstream, work?

What if were were to go to another planet and start a colony where no schooling was ever there?

How would that world then develop other things

Answer 1

The world would work, I believe it would work quite well actually.  But this would mean that families in which both parents have jobs, one of them would have to quit.  This may not always be possible.  Also single parent families..that wouldn't be too great, trying to hold down a job and teach your kids.  And I think that school is good for the families where kids do not learn much at home, it's good to be out of the house and have other role-models.  It would require a lot of work to get to the point where everyone is homeschooled, but it is certainly possible.  I think if it happened it would mean a much greater sense of community and such, because families would be closer.  I think the level of education would rise heaps, because more and more people would devolop better ways to teach kids things.  General knowledge would increase too.

Answer 2

public schools are bettter of gone.i think the owrld would be perfect if there is only homeschooling nothing else

Answer 3

There was once a time.  It was called the Feudal system and you worked all day long because you had no education and couldn't do anything else but labor.

In the U.S. in 1660 the Clergy decided this was not a good thing and they mandated that all kids must be educated and all towns must form schools and teach them to read the Bible, write and do numbers.

This was the start of Public Education in the WORLD.

Up to this point only the rich, affluent, business and Royal families provided education to their kids.

The public school system serves a purpose and works to a degree, when it fails or works to a lesser degree there are alternatives including private school, homeschool and unschooling.

Getting rid of the public school system does not serve any purpose other than putting some people back into the dark ages.

It restores an elitist society.

Answer 4

KAOS!!!! Yet it might work. people would be more equal because no one would have a higher schoolingAWESOME!!!!!!!LOL

I happen to like school.

YEAH EQUALITY!!!!????

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Answer 5

The literacy rate would skyrocket.

Answer 6

If we went to another planet and started a new colony then it might work. The whole unschooling thing only works when the student is motivated to learn on his own. If a love of learning can be instilled into students at a young age, then I think unschooling would be very effective.

Back at earth, however, I don't think mass unschooling would work because I don't think most parents would invest enough time in their children.

Answer 7

I don't think that education = current school system.

I don't think that to create and discover new things (to evolve and develop as human being) you need a school system like the one we have today.

You ask what would happen if we need to colonize a new planet and people is all home-schooled? Well, as always happened before (and still is), there would be people interested in science, that will study and develop and create and discover things and rules; there will be people interested in arts, that will create wonderful pieces of music or paintings or movies or books or sculptures or buildings; and there will be people who is happy being farmers, gardeners, cooks and bakers...just like yesterday, today and tomorrow! And that will be wonderful, because a world full of scientists would probably need bakers and cooks and farmers, and a world without artists would be sad and cold.

Knowledge is not inherent to schools, nor is "only" possible through schools.

You can read about many wonderful people in the past that were homeschooled (never went to a school) and they were scientists and artists and creators and farmers and presidents and inventors and bakers, gardeners, etc. They didn't need a "school" to learn what they learned nor to discover inside them what they wanted to do for a life.

Organized knowledge is necessary because you need to put some rules and share the knowledge and be sure that you are not inventing what already was invented. For that, you can have Universities and Colleges or any other type of organization where people with same interests share and help each other to learn.

I think a world without schools can work as worked before. Now we have more technology and tools to spread the knowledge and to learn what we need and human beings are born naturally curious and not only want, they feel the "need" for learning...

We have Internet and videos and libraries and documentaries and books and MP3s and so many other things, we have museums and people who meet together to ask for speeches and share thoughts and knowledge and beliefs.

I think is worth trying...

Answer 8

The responsibility for education would be on the parents/family, rather than on the government.  Could be done; but would need committed parents.   Would need to see what education is really necessary, what education is not.

One possible problem: the well-off would be better able to have their kids educated, so the poorer classes would be less educated.

Answer 9

Well, I think parents would take more responsibility fort their child(ren) Please don't take this the wrong way, but some parents think they shouldn't have to take charge of their child(ren) at all, and they expect the schools to do everything for them (food, behavior, manners, et cetera)

That's why I am all for homeschooling.

Answer 10

If the culture developed placing a value on education, then yes... adults would encourage children, set a good example, society would put the money towards stimulating activities and places rather than formal schools.

If in our Western culture every school shut down one day and everyone unschooled-- I'm not so optimistic it would work out. People are lazy and have been taught not to value education, that formal education is boring and tedious and something to look forward to getting over, that one needs to be "filled" with facts rather than thinking for themselves. Too many people would retire to their sofas with a remote and a playstation.

Answer 11

It wasn't long ago that the world was operating with out public schools! Sending your child to school was a luxury only the super rich could afford.

If home school became main stream again then the world would become a different place. Can you imagine all those kids raised with morals and respect for the elders? WOW!

Answer 12

It did before, the school system as we know it today has only been around for about 150 to 200 years, and we see the dismal results of this system first hand today.

I guess we may be able to learn something from the "past" after all wouldn't you say.

People did just fine, and learned all they needed to function; home schooling, and other non-conventional schooling methods are proof enough that that can, and does work.

Many of the inventors, who's inventions we are the beneficiaries of today were developed by those who left the school system, were home schooled and given the chance to "create".

People will invent, and develop many things  once they are not confined to a classroom with a prescribed curriculum where everyone has to learn the same thing at the same time, ready or not, interested or not, and if they; the students do not, are branded a "failure".

Check out all the so called "failures" who gave us these great inventions we are building on today.

Answer 13

There are too many generations of people who have been publicly schooled, I'm thinking it wouldn't work. People are so used to being spoon-fed information, and having someone else spoonfeed THEIR kids, that they wouldn't know what to do.

However, if you took ALL the billions spent on public education now, gave it to each parent equally, they could either choose to stay home and work, put their kids in private school (and probably get cash back) or hire tutors.

We unschool. It works, in the right environment. However, our society is so focused on controlling children, that I'm not sure that unschooling would work for those unwilling to let go of arbitrary rules, and let their children make more choices.

Answer 14

The world worked before formal education came about.  The question is...did it work better?  Probably not, because without education, people would be stuck without knowledge that is passed down from all the previous great minds of the past.  I would not be happy in a world where every generation had to keep reinventing the wheel simply because they were never taught how to do it through education.