Isms 18 Mar 2007 11:24 am
Statism and “socialization”
In Home Schooling Movement, a PBS program of January 10th, 2007, Robert Reich (billed as a “home schooling expert”) says:
“If parents can control every aspect of the kids’ education, shield them from exposure to things that the parents deem sinful or objectionable, screen in only things which accord with their convictions, and not allow them exposure to the world of democracy, well the children grow up then basically in the own image of their parents, servile to their own parents’ beliefs.”
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Oh really? Turn that around a bit, I would say that if the government can control every aspect of the kids’ education, shield them from exposure to things that the state deem sinful or objectionable, screen in only things which accord with their convictions, and not allow them exposure to the world of democracy, well the children grow up then basically in the own image of the government leaders, servile to the state’s beliefs!
So it’s really a question, of who should be charge? Chris Ortiz has more commentary here.
Of course, don’t forget the situation in Germany:
Heinz Kohler, the county education director, dismissed the [homeschooling] families’ beliefs, stating, “you and your children are not living in isolation on some island but rather in an environment posing intra- and extracurricular situations where you’ll have to accept that your world view will be curtailed.” Mr. Kohler further explained that homeschooling could not be allowed as “children should not be encapsulated or kept apart from the outside world. In these cases, the parents’ rights to personally educate their children would prevent the children from growing up to be responsible individuals within society…”
In other words, the goal of education is to bring children up in the nurture and nationalism of the State.