Comments on: Compliance versus self-regulation http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/compliance-versus-self-regulation/ Thu, 09 May 2013 16:20:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dwighttowers http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/compliance-versus-self-regulation/#comment-1214 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:42:11 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=3066#comment-1214 Ishmael? Quinn?
Would be worth posting that cartoon about peer groups I sent you, wouldn’t it? :)

cheers

]]> By: vera http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/compliance-versus-self-regulation/#comment-1213 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:21:10 +0000 http://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/?p=3066#comment-1213 Ishmael (Quinn) says that schools are designed to produce kids who have zero skills so that that they have to begin at the bottom of the economic system. Until then, they are just cooped up and out of the job market.

This stuff about opening things up… been around since late 60s. Privileged kids get some of that. But they are still institutionalized…

I am for unschooling myself. Or Neil’s Summerhill, which was as close as it gets to it.

Once I dreamed of opening a place… out in the country near a good sized town, where there would be no teachers. Each adult would be responsible for befriending and following closely about 10 kids… and make sure that one way or another, the necessary basics were learned. Older/faster kids would help the others, and *everybody* would learn the basics. The rest of the time, people from the community would give workshops, esp. retired folks. And the kids could just free play, or take workshops, or both. The place would be set up like an adventure playground… Given the reality of people being wage slaves and many not being able to set up unschooling, this would work, I think.

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