A lot of libertarians hate public schools, but do you know where they originate from? All public schools are modeled after the Prussian Model, which was a precursor to the Nazi ideology.
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If all public schools are based on the Prussian model, then it was a precursor to ALL modern ideologies. Singling out a bad ideology to make public school look bad is ridiculous.
Of course, I'm not defending Communism, or any other collectivist ideology. I myself am an individualist.
So pretty much everything that comes out of the government bakery (public school) will be rotten.
Only philosophy and critical thinking can save humanity from tribal hatred, or ideological fanaticism.
Well... no. Sorry, education is needed and the reality is public school is the best way for the masses to become educated enough to learn philosophy or critical thinking skills.
That is, if you left it up to the parents to be homeschooled everyone would only be taught what their parents know. I can guarantee you most Americans will learn more about Socrates, Plato, and Nietzsche than they possibly could from their parents.
Private school might be better, but most people can't afford it and even if they did it's generally not much different... just more rigorous.
Individualism won't save humanity from tribal hatred, because humans naturally form groups and always will. Humans would need to fundamentally change for it to work. The more likely scenario is for humans to eventually see the entire world as one tribe. Similar to how everyone in high school forms cliques, but all the cliques see themselves as equally part of the school. But that tends to work best when there's a rival football team, so we probably need aliens to show up so we can see ourselves as a human tribe and the aliens as the rivals.
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Ok but then it will never get reformed. Like how can you hold a government accountable for anything? They get away with almost everything, and they just laugh in your faces.
A private school is not perfect and you might be influenced to some corporate evil, but atleast they are held accountable, tightly by their customers.
A government stealing money from you by force, to keep your children indoctrinated by force.
How is that a moral way of teaching people?
It will never get reformed? The same way gay marriage was never legalized? Or how marijauna isn't being legalized? Or how alcohol wasn't banned due to public pressure and then unbanned due to public pressure? Or how education wasn't reformed (badly) by Bush?
Also no, public schools don't indoctrinate you. Moreover private schools would just indoctrinate people into the beliefs they want, the only "advantage" would be parents choosing the the school. But look how many people come out of Catholic school only to become atheists... which mostly shows the indoctrination you think happens in schools doesn't work.
Those are little things. But the major problems never go away.
Well even though private schools are privately administered, the curriculum is still government enforced.
I would rather see a full public school, with independent curriculum, where the kids can choose what topics they are interested in.
There is no point in boring math kids with literature, or chemistry kids with geography.
I disagree, as I've gotten older I've seen more and more how the stuff I should have learned fits together. A nice specific example is that I always sucked at math, mostly because I never had interest so never did the work. Went to college and became a programmer thinking I could make video games... only it turned out math is pretty critical for graphics programming.
It all worked out, but teaching kids only what they are interested in will actually limit them in the future.
I think what we do need to do is expose kids to as many subjects as possible so they can find what they like doing. (I didn't discover I enjoyed programming until college, there were no computer classes in my high school.) Then help students understand how other subjects can tie into what they enjoy doing.
There's really no question our school system needs work, though...
Then they will drown in information, and will understand nothing.
It's like the dependencies in linux, yes you need math as a dependancy for programming, that is why the 2 should be taught together.
However I hardly see any relation between geography and psychology?
So why force people to learn that. People should choose themselves. A 14-15 year old kid has enough knowledge to know what he wants.
here is a full response to your other lengthy post:
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@profitgenerator/debunking-some-arguments-against-individualism