From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 11:51:28 MDT
I have known a number of people who either homeschooled or were
homeschooled. There are quite a number of curricula already available,
though I'm not sure if anything has been put together with an extropian
bent to it. Doing so would, I think, be a very valuable resource for
ExI.
Since you don't have any kids yet, I wouldn't try to microplan their
whole educational careers, were I you, unless you intended to develop
an ExI curricula for all extropians to use (which might be profitable
as well).
As a rule, though, I'd look at public/private school curricula, then
plan on teaching that at an accellerated rate, but customized to the
pupil.
One advantage of homeschooling I've heard is that because it is time
flexible and so pupil centered that it is easy to let each child study
their own interests at their own pace. Under such a scheme, trying to
impose a curriculum structure for decades in advance might seem to be a
bit of a conflict.
--- Karen Rand Smigrodzki <karen@smigrodzki.org> wrote:
> I would like to know if any of you have any experience directly or
> indirectly with homeschooling. I am getting a head start on planning
> since
> we don't have any kids yet, but I want to homeschool my child(ren).
> Have
> any of you done that, or known people who did?
>
> One problem I am dealing with is planning the curriculum. I would
> like to
> teach them so many things, of course. However, realistically I have
> to
> select. I am curious what topics any of you would want to see taught
> if your
> own child were being homeschooled.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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