I lol’d.
Wow, the second that I read this question I literally just though “oh…”
So basically just copy the public school model except slightly more boring, or just simply lecture and doing problems. But still, the public education system is close enough as it is.
However, I have always wondered whether or not human beings actually naturally enjoy learning or not, and I think that the answer is yes to some degree, although of course some are much more curious about things than others. The problem in my mind is whether or not the interest that people display in learning is greater than the interest that they display in other things. For most of the people here the answer is yes, for many I’m not so sure, however if people began learning in a more intriguing and encouraging environment throughout their first several years of schooling or education I’m certain these numbers would skyrocket.
TBH, there is no answer to the question. I recently did a personality assessment. In the Inquiring, Organized, Authentic, Resourceful temperaments I scored 19, 7, 10, 14. (That is the most rare combination; only 3% of people have 1 and 4 the highest.) That is after several truency charges and court appearances beginning at age 13, being carried into the classroom with my feet over my head, being driven to school in a police car, extreme punishment driving me to suicidal/homicidal depression/rage, being forced into a group home, being forced to see psychologists and making a “hit list” and plotting to assassinate key figures in those events. I’m fundamentally exactly the same now as I was at the start. It’s just my opinion of others that has changed…
The fallacy behind this question is the same as the fallacy of the “good school”. Teaching has virtually no effect on learning. The “best” and “worst” schools/teacher myth is a correlation fallacy where teachers and administrators attempt to take credit for the individual success of the demographically random student body.
Your school life sounds like mine. When they started sending out their truancy gestapo to my house to make me go I’d get up extra early in the morning and army crawl through a dry trench behind the house until I got to my friend’s place.
Ricky James Moore II:
Your school life sounds like mine. When they started sending out their truancy gestapo to my house to make me go I’d get up extra early in the morning and army crawl through a dry trench behind the house until I got to my friend’s place.
From How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne:
Then there are all the little irritants of governmental regulation—compulsory schooling laws, zoning laws, licenses, etc. If you gripe about them or campaign against them, you probably won’t get anywhere. But use a little imagination and they don’t have to control you.
For instance Karl Hess decided he didn’t want to attend high school—despite the compulsory schooling laws. So he registered at two different schools, then filled out transfer slips from each of them. Authorities at each school assumed he was at the other and no one ever bothered him about it again.2
- National Observer, March 1, 1971, p. 18.
Education (by Aaron0883)
