Synchronicity

Post #299,560 by drook 11/12/08 7:54:56 PM Reply	Synchronicity I was just saying to my wife last night that we have the same problem with education as we do with diet: obsessing about what we avoid, instead of what we add. Lots of people who home-school (not you, Scott) do it because they want to keep certain ideas away from their children. I think it would be better for the children -- and clearly better for society -- if parents instead countered ideas they oppose with other ideas, and explained why their ideas are better. And with diet, people who focus on "no fat" or "no carbs" aren't generally as healthy as people who focus on "more greens" or "more vegetables." I'm seeing this pattern often enough I'm starting to think it borders on a natural law. -- Drew
Post #299,569 by malraux 11/12/08 9:35:40 PM Reply	Agreed We see a lot of that in home schooling families, and not just the religious ones. My wife was just telling me about a mother we know who started sending her kid to a Chemistry class. The class is taught by a Christian group from a Christian text book. The mother is a scientist by training. She looked through the text book and discovered that, despite God being in the index 12 times, the text itself was extremely accurate and well-written -- this is generally not the case with Christian text books, particularly the science ones. The mother, who belongs to a secular home school group, is now being ostracized by several of the other members of varying non-Christian beliefs, for "selling out". Never mind that the text and the class are well done and useful. Personally, we expose our kids to as much as we can, essentially a comparative religion course. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #299,574 by boxley 11/12/08 11:53:44 PM Reply	do your physiks books have turtles and an orange librarian? having to home school the older boy, finding useful textbooks involved a lot of perusing old used bookstore shelves with a vetting by doc's buddy ray. the local school board sneered at the diploma issued by the florida online school but hey, it has the same accreditation as clayton county georgia public schools and the sat he will take in january decides his placement thanx, bill
Post #299,579 by malraux 11/13/08 12:39:31 AM Reply	No, that's part of comparative religion... Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #299,580 by laura 11/13/08 7:25:27 AM Reply	:-) Yep. As far as I'm concerned, each time we declare "war on" terror, drugs, sex, cancer, carbs, religion...fill in the blank, all we get is more of the same. We perpetuate the exact thing we are trying to eradicate. Which is why I abhor politics and rarely watch the news.

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