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—The learning curve. Without experience, new teachers are inevitably going to make the same
mistakes, mistakes that are easily avoided the tenth time around… which most home educators
will never get to.
—The time commitment. The cost of one parent per student is huge—and halving it for two
kids is not nearly enough. Most families can’t afford this, and few people have the patience to
pull it off.
—Providing a different refuge from fear. This is the biggest one, the largest concern of all. If
the goal of the process is create a level of fearlessness, to create a free-range environment filled
with exploration and all the failure that entails, most parents just don’t have the guts to pull this
off. It’s one thing for a caring and trained professional to put your kids through a sometimes
harrowing process; it’s quite another to do it yourself.
122.Some courses I’d like to see taught in school
How old is the Earth?
What’s the right price to pay for this car?
Improv
How to do something no one has ever done before
Design and build a small house
Advanced software interface design
123.The future of the library
This is an issue very much aligned with the one we’re dealing with here. The very forces that
are upending our need for school are at work at libraries as well. Here’s my most retweeted blog
post ever:
What is a public library for?
First, how we got here:
Before Gutenberg, a book cost about as much as a small house. As a result, only kings and
bishops could afford to own a book of their own.
This situation naturally led to the creation of shared books, of libraries where scholars (everyone
else was too busy not starving) could come to read books that they didn’t have to own. The
library as warehouse for books worth sharing.
Only after that did we invent the librarian.
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