Alternative Educations
san_jose_guy
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018 5:02 PM
John Dewey had said that people should be educated through occupations. But this got turned into educating people for occupations. This was never what he meant.
What are some of the alternative education sources available today?
One would be these great books schools. Only a couple that I know of, because I have met people from them.
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So here they have their four year reading list:
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In any event, people who have been in seminars where they read and discuss Plato, they are going to be much smarter than even the graduates of the best standard schools.
I think with the old math and science books, reading the old books instead of new books, that is more controversial. But with philosophy and literature, there is nothing controversial about reading the old books.
Our populace spends years in school, but it is mostly just wasted time, in my opinion.
SJG
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