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• Re:memes are nothing (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @10:22AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 14 2021, @10:22AM (#1145026)

  https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/yummy-mummy-club/homeschooling_b_1826688.html [huffingtonpost.ca]

  THE BLOG
  Why Do Home-schooled Children Outperform? Their Parents
  I know there are some who might use the finding that home-schooled children outperform their public school counterparts as an argument against the latter, but "the system" is apparently not the telling factor here. Nope. It's parents. Homeschooled children tend to outperform traditionally-educated kids, because their parents are more involved and the kids respond to that involvement.

  The fact is, home schooling runs the gamut, from inferior to superior. The better educated the teachers, the better educated the students. While public schooling has been demonstrated to be little more than indoctrination into political views, and employer's expectations. The educational levels of the "teachers" has modest if any impact on the education of the students.

  Before judging home schooled people, you should take inventory of all the figures in history who educated themselves in "non-traditional" methods. Read and learn - http://learningabe.info/Lincoln_education.html [learningabe.info]

  II. Abraham's Education: From the John L. Scripp's Interview of Abraham

  Lincoln in 1860 (in the Chicago Tribune)

          While here (Indiana farm), Abraham went to A B C schools by littles, kept successively by Andrew Crawford,--Sweeney, and Azel W. Dorsey. He does not remember any other. The family of Mr. Dorsey now resides in Schuyler County, Illinois. Abraham now thinks that the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year. He was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building till since he had a law license. What he has in the way of education he has picked up. After he was twenty-three and had separated from his father, he studied English grammar--imperfectly, of course, but so as to speak and write as well as he now does. He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress. He regrets his want of education, and does what he can to supply the want.

  FACT LIST OF LINCOLN'S EDUCATION

  When his father could spare him from chores, Lincoln attended an ABC school. Such schools were held in log cabins, and often the teachers were barely more educated than their pupils.
  According to Lincoln, “no qualification was ever required of a teacher beyond readin', writin', and cipherin', to the Rule of Three.” Including a few weeks at a similar school in Kentucky,
  Lincoln had less than one full year of formal education in his entire life-- all in short winter-time periods to not interfere with farm work during the important seasons.
  Abe's stepmother encouraged his quest for knowledge.
  At an early age he could read, write, and do simple arithmetic.
  Books were scarce on the Indiana frontier, but besides the family Bible, which Lincoln knew well, he was able to read the classical authors Aesop, John Bunyan, and Daniel Defoe, as well as William Grimshaw's History of the United States (1820) and Mason Locke Weems's Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (about 1800). This biography of George Washington made a lasting impression on Lincoln, and he made the ideals of Washington and the founding fathers of the United States his own.
  By the time Lincoln was 19 years old, he had reached his full height of 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in). He was lean and muscular, with long arms and big hands that gave him an awkward appearance. Although he had remarkable strength, he never liked farm work. He preferred instead the easy congeniality that he found at the general store in nearby Gentryville. A neighbor recalled “Abe was awful lazy, he would laugh and talk and crack jokes and tell stories all the time.”
  Abe's childhood schools were in small log cabins with holes for windows. There were few, if any books. The Bible was used as the reading source in the later schools.
  Teachers were called "wizzards" if they could read, write, cipher to the rule of three, and knew Latin. One of his teachers spent their school time learning manners of the time. He only lasted a year.
  Sarah Bush Lincoln, Abraham's step mother was illiterate like Thomas, but encouraged Abraham's unusual ways in desiring to learn and read.

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