Is there any material about it on these forums? I remember it being mentioned a while ago.
Everywhere.
Do a search on the mises home page.
Heres one of my favorite videos also (preferably watch this after public schools have been abolished, and you need to find a new way to teach children, OR if you are extablishing your own private school):
LibertyHQ has an aggregated list of libertarian education links:
http://candlemind.com/projects/progclub/file/michael/edu.php
Gee Wheylous. How come this LibertyHQ site is hosted at “candlemind.com”? That seems odd. I’m not sure I should trust this source.
What about the socialization argument?
I honestly never saw how public schools encourage socialization
In fact don’t you get punished for not just shutting up and listening throughout most of the day save maybe recess and lunch
The argument is that people make friends at school and if they didn’t go, they would stay home all day.
I’m gonna go ahead and recommend The War on Kids.
Most kids go to school because their parents tell them they have to, not because of any laws telling them to.
Seriously? Is that what you did on the weekends when you were a kid? In fact when I was in primary school I barely saw other school kids on the weekends - I played with the neighbourhood kids instead. Anyway, the only reason that there wouldn’t be other children to ‘socialise’ with during the week is that they are all in school!! There’s plenty of opportunities for children to make friends outside of school: through sport, scouts, family friends etc. This would be even more the case if less children were in school.
This argument could be countered with: Most parents tell their kids they have to go to school because the state mandates them to.
I’m pretty sure Neo was just responding to Luminar by saying that the impetus for schooling comes from the parents rather than from the state, i.e. the fact that the state has schooling laws doesn’t mean that there would be no schooling in the absence of these laws.
Yea Aristippus pretty much summed it up.
It’s hard for me to see a loving parent letting a 10 year old run around free doing what I wanted to do with my time at that age (oh how I love you Pokemon) without any sort of educational/vocational plan, even if it’s some sort of homeschooling.
Interestingly, Neodoxy, I’ve come across people who were essentially taught to read not by schools, but by playing text-heavy video games like Pokemon.
True, but since education would (or at least could) be vastly different in a free society, it’s also likely that there will be many parents that wish to educate their child differently (maybe not in one building for 7-8 hours/5 five days a week, or maybe not away from home at all, etc.). In fact, the way I imagine a free society, most of the kids in school will want to be there, as they will be actually learning about things that actually interest them instead of forcing millions of kids through the same one-size-fits-all curriculum. But I do apologize for possibly not understanding what Neodoxy was getting at.
Also, if I may add, not all parents are loving (even if that demographic were only 1%). Then mix in the fact that in a free society, parents would likely have to pay for the tuition for each session/semester/year at a time (instead of being taxed constantly to fund public schools, regardless of whether the taxpayer has children using those public schools) and we can see it might be likely that for another small demographic, the kids who just refuse to do their homework/get the passing grades/just aren’t built for schooling (at least in the traditional sense), that these kids’ parents will stop paying the tuition/sending their kids to school, even if they search for alternatives for their child’s education/training.
What about the socialization argument?
There was a study on this. The conclusion was that homeschooled kids outscored schooled kids in all social categories. I have the links at home, but I am currently away for a week.
Gee Wheylous. How come this LibertyHQ site is hosted at “candlemind.com”? That seems odd. I’m not sure I should trust this source.
Funny, cuz for now it’s almost completely a list of links to other websites. All of which are reputable.
About the study on socialization:
I tried to find the link from fresh, but I didn’t find the exact thing, so here are a few sources on socialization. They might very well be biased, but it’s something worth looking into:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000000/00000068.asp
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/144135.aspx
http://school.familyeducation.com/home-schooling/human-relations/56224.html