On the Nature of Education
What are some of your initial ideas about homeschooling before you read? What do you think is the ultimate purpose of education? I have never met a homeschool kid so based on media presentation and general opinion, I initially percieved them as awkward and extrememly sheltered by their parents due to religious reasons. I believe that the ultimate purpose of education should be to prepare children how to be independent on their own once they become adults. Different subjects in school expose students to different fields of study to pursue in. Describe some of Megan's experiences as a homeschooled student in what her mom terms "delight-directed integrated study." O'Gieblyn's mother homeschooled her children since she believed that institutionalized schooling was full of "busy work" that did not truly foster purposeful learning and only conditioned students to be complacent adults. She thought that the experiences that her children would see in their bar...