> Phil, your post was looking so good until it got this fantastic injection
What are other parents on this list doing about education? I can't imagine
that the anti-death&taxes types hanging around extropians are going for the
marching-up-and-down-the-square type of set up that conventional schooling
offers.
Emlyn thank you sir may I please have another
Disciple of Discipline
> of mysogeny! It's such a bummer to see you mix in the following paragraph
> with an otherwise very informative piece on Montessori schools. It brings
> the credibility of the whole post down.
>
> Women - not all of them, obviously, but way too many - are anti-rational
> and
> consistently resist science and technology. Look at how they waited until
>
> computers became "fashinable" to finally adopt them. As an educational
> consultant in the '80's, I could talk for hours about this one. And
> Amerika
> distrusts people who are too smart, as in "Mad Scientists." So it's a
> hard
> sell culturally and then you have active, dedicated thoroughly evil
> opposition who happen to control the state-financed compulsory education
> and
> its propaganda apparatus - the schools themselves.
>
I send my daughter to a preschool which is run along Montessori lines, and
she thrives there. This was after some false starts at more "conventional"
(f*cked up) schools which seemed more interested in breaking individualism
and getting that institutional mindset going as early as humanly possible. I
remember seeing my daughter, along with the rest of the kids at one
preschool, running around in the playground wearing the school hat (I hadn't
known there was a school hat). They just had to have some kind of uniform.
When I asked about it, I got the usual line (which we all probably have come
across) about engendering equality in the children. Yes sir, yes sir, three
bags full.