Would home-learning lead to 'hot-housing' and other disadvantages???

Question

Would it work better for religious or non-religious families?

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Answer 1

I'm not sure how you could consider a hot-house a disadvantage.   Starting plants in a protective area comes  in very handy for starting our spring plants early, giving the seeds advantage of being more productive,  and protecting the seeds from elements.

Now, if I were to start my plants in a protected area away from frost and   destructive insects and then give them to my neighbor who does not like plants, my plants will probably die.    If I start my plants indoors, plant them outdoors and continue to  make sure they get the nutrients they need, protect them from harmful weed killers,  etc., then my plants will have more of a chance of thriving and being useful than if I give seeds to my neighbor or  give her my plant when it is a seedling.

This is over 5-10 lines but we are very convinced that home-learning is the best way to learn.   We should have never put our son in a government institution at age 5 and trusted them to educate him.    He learns more at home than he did in the public school system.   He has more freedom to be social with a variety of people and not just people his own age.  He has more tolerance of others who don't dress the same way and speak the same way.

Would it work better for religious or non-religious families?   I do not know any families who are not religious.   They may be humanistic, atheistic, christian, muslim,  or agnostic but every one I know has a religion of some type.    They worship television, pop-idols, cars, boats, themselves, God or gods, or something.

After thought-  Here is definition of religious in today's society:

"a kind of cultural and/or linguistic framework or medium that shapes the entirety of life and thought… it is similar to an idiom that makes possible the description of realities, the formulation of beliefs, and the experiencing of inner attitudes, feelings, and sentiments.”[6] According to this definition, religion refers to one's primary worldview and how this dictates one's thoughts and actions.

Answer 2

The ancient wisdom Mother is the best teacher is not outdated.In fact, all learning starts from home and where the home learning is lacking the best schools cannot help you.

The development of formal schools is a later development with the growing social complexity and a  tendency towards specilisation. It has,however, not diminished Home learning. And I am not speaking just of manners etc. I was forced to leave school when I was just 10 years old as  we could not afford school. However, I kept up studying at home   going  through the text books. I found that most of these books are self contained. I did not have to consult anybody for doing the arithematic ,geometry or  algebra. Even if initially I found the ieads difficult to gulp down a persistence slowly clarified them to me. This was also with languages. A story in the Mahaabharat goes that when a student could not get admission to an archery school because of his lower cast. he  self-praticed it and outdid the best student of that 'guru' Though the guru was overwhelmed and also ashamed he had to keep his career in tact. He asked for and was willinglygiven the right thumb of the 'pupil' which permanently disabled him. The moral is self teaching at home is the best form of  teaching. Even if you are the one who could afford expensivde school rest assured that unless you take initiative in teaching yourself at home the schools would be of no great value.Incidentally  I was not a very bright student in school but this I proved myself a best student of myself and at the graduation examination at my time   I stood first among all the school going students in my home district.

Answer 3

This sounds suspiciously like a homework question that you are trying to cheat for...

Answer 4

Home educated children could be 'hot-housed' and if it's what the parents want to do it's likely to be much more effective than trying to do it with them going to school. I'm not sure how you conclude that it's a disadvantage. It's certainly a term that's got a lot of bad press with the idea that it's pushing children too hard and not letting them be children, but I'm not happy about that interpretation because it sounds like the kind of judgement based on ignorance that home education suffers from too.

What do you mean by 'religious families'? The stereotypical hard line Christian or Muslim ones where religion defines everything they do? How well it 'works' depends on what you're aiming for. A 'religious' family might do it to 'protect' their children from ideas they don't like and achieving that could be their definition of working. A non-religious family would most likely have very different criteria for success.