Stupidification

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i think school stupidifies children and limits their understanding and intellectual capacity by entrapping them in the framework of the national curriculum
 
nuj said:
i think school stupidifies children and limits their understanding and intellectual capacity by entrapping them in the framework of the national curriculum
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Yep, everyone ends up just learning for Exams - nothing else...

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Only downside to homeschooling is your kids' social life. They may never know what it feels like to have a 'my school friend' if you know what I mean. :p

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its quite sad how....the population is increasing at a crazy rate...yet the schooling system is getting poorer and poorer....and children are underachieving at a crazy rate.

i was reading once how these two men they home schooled a kid (John Stuart
Mill) and by the age of 3 he could speak and read greek....by like 5 he had read the dialogues of plato in greek.... and he did some other pretty cool stuff ...that's cos they fore went the education system and taught the child according to their theory's...

...mind you...the kid had a mental break down aged 18...so...uh im not suggesting that we do something extreme....and im not supporting the so called philosophers...

just exploring possibilities.
 
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I guess I agree with you... You'd rather have your kids at home rather than at school where they could be doing anything...

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Hanz said:
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I guess I agree with you... You'd rather have your kids at home rather than at school where they could be doing anything...

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i dont think homeschooling means no social life.

far from it....its what were bought up to believe because society at large is brainwashed by the schooling system so homeschooling is portrayed as archaic...if not oppressive.
 
Asalaamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatu,

Jizakillahu Khairan for posting the link sis. I feel very fortunate to have been homeschooled Alhamdulillah. :D
 
But the child will never go out of his/her house, except on weekends and evenings. I dunno but who'd they have for freinds?

I'm unsure, never experienced homeschooling...
 
Hanz said:
But the child will never go out of his/her house, except on weekends and evenings. I dunno but who'd they have for freinds?
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lol....who said they wont go out except evenings and week ends??

who made up that rule?
 
I don't know that I persoanlly agree with home-schooling among other concerning issues would be social isolation and not everyone ends up a 'John stuart'

I think choosing a top ten school would be a better option.. I have never attended public school myself, and wouldn't want to subject any kid to it.. but I am not so sure learning at home is best-- there is much to be gained from human interactions good or bad!..


Just my opinion and Allah swt knows best

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@ nuj: Lol, I have no idea how homeschooling works! :D

@ Alpha: Of course bro! :D
 
Skye Ephémérine said:
I don't know that I persoanlly agree with home-schooling among other concerning issues would be social isolation and not everyone ends up a 'John stuart'

I think choosing a top ten school would be a better option.. I have never attended public school myself, and wouldn't want to subject any kid to it.. but I am not so sure learning at home is best..


Just my opinion and Allah swt knows best

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with private schooling....maybe its a step up...but thats all it is...my sister teaches in a private school...and its a muslim one...and the fact is the kids are just taught better....but the national curriculum is the main objective and training the kids to pass exams.
 
Psst! Can someone explain to me how homeschooling works! :D

(At the moment, I'm getting everything wrong! :p)
 
hey i made up a new word...maybe its not new but ive never heard it myself... umm so..it goes like this;

Stupidification; A process whereby one is systematically stupidified under the influence of the national curriculum.

i think it shud go in the dictionary. hehe.
 
Hanz said:
Psst! Can someone explain to me how homeschooling works! :D

(At the moment, I'm getting everything wrong! :p)
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lol...basically you teach the child yourself...but you need to also fulfill the..wait for it...objectives of the national curriculum!

Professor Mortimer J Adler...check him out he has some pretty cool ideas on the schooling system...(hes a philisopher btw...so uh...approach with caution)
 
Alright, so the parent teaches the child or someone comes in?

nuj said:
Stupidification; A process whereby one is systematically stupidified under the influence of the national curriculum.
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Hehe! Masha'Allah, that's a good one! :D
 
nuj said:
with private schooling....maybe its a step up...but thats all it is...my sister teaches in a private school...and its a muslim one...and the fact is the kids are just taught better....but the national curriculum is the main objective and training the kids to pass exams.
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The national curriculum would be the same objective even at home, they will give you the same books everyone else has and expect that your kids learn them and sit for the exams everyone else is taking..

the subjects taught are appropriate for age and anecessary foundation for the future.. having interest in learning is a personal matter, the same as with religion, no one can spark that interest in you if you aren't willing to accept it or cultivate it.. and that will be the same whether you are teaching or Dr. mary is teaching them...

It is a three way stream, the school/teachers part, the parents part at home and the child's part.. Home schooling would deprive them of another perspective all together.. plus the social ineptitude and perhaps isolation .. children need to forge friendships to grow..

again just my opinion

and Allah swt knows best

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Skye Ephémérine said:
It is a three way stream, the school/teachers part, the parents part at home and the child's part.. Home schooling would deprive them of another perspective all together.. plus the social ineptitude and perhaps isolation .. children need to forge friendships to grow..

again just my opinion

and Allah swt knows best

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the isolation factor is just us as people living in the west not being able to think outside of the box.

i really think its a weak argument against homeschooling....as humans we've been blessed with an intellect so inshaAllah we can think outside of that box..?
 

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