Can education take place outside school?

[merrymarge]

A parent has the option of finding more information to teach their child. Today, with the internet,a parent has access to more information than ever before. Here in AZ, we have virtual schools. These schools are solely on-line classes. The child takes classes in their home.

[NumberEight]

Originally Posted by merrymarge

A parent has the option of finding more information to teach their child. Today, with the internet,a parent has access to more information than ever before.

This may be so, but if the parents lack the qualifications, they shouldn't teach, even with more access.

[Lemongrass]

Then any parent who wants to teach their children should get the qualifications, and where they don't have them, they can get someone with the right qualifications to teach their child, education doesn't necessarily have to happen in a traditional school setting.

Something like a network of people with different qualifications, for different subjects can all team up together, and if they have similar ideas about the type of education they want to provide can set up a community schooling system, that provides everything a traditional school would, and more. It is very possible.

[gertiekeddle]

Originally Posted by Lemongrass

Something like a network of people with different qualifications, for different subjects can all team up together, and if they have similar ideas about the type of education they want to provide can set up a community schooling system, that provides everything a traditional school would, and more. It is very possible.

That's true, and this would be a school once again. So my main worry that some social experiences get lost when children are taught home only, wouldn't hit. It's maybe a good possibility to develop something if being unhappy with the current school curriculas.
That's said, it certainly depends on the country one comes from - but judging from my environment I wouldn't feel comfortable with teaching my kid anyway. I do have very strong views on what should be taught and what not, and I would be able to provide lessons in some courses. But what I lack of myself is a teaching education for non-adults. I don't think the education one gets to become a teacher should be easily denied. So I'd rather let my kid learn to decide while attending a school, which teaches both things I'd teach too and things I'd let out.

For sure home schooling or online schooling (or a combination of both) takes place when there just is no close school around. As said, I see some pros in home schooling. It just would be my choice to put my kid to regular school instead of teaching it at home because I believe I couldn't provide some lessons of life only be learnt collectively and 'out there'.

[merrymarge]

Hear, hear! (or 'ear 'ear) LOL couldn't put it better myself.

[LillyColak]

it ceartainly does, i learnt almost everything i know from home either from my brother or my grandpa or my ma or pa,
if you send a kid to school with the idea in their head that thats all they need and nothing to do with home they won't do well,
you may learn new techniques at school but you learn the knowledge and hone it at home,
if you learn a book in school odds are you won't do too well on it nor remember it later,
how many of us have remembered books we read at home like 3 years ago the basic plot+ i'm going to bet many of us can.
i don't think its the best idea to barrage the kid with work when he gets home from school, but on weekends for an hour or two you can go over schoolwork in the summer you can teach him the material so when he goes to school he won't be in uncharted territory and lost, even on a daily bases you can teach him a fact casually you don't have to make a big production out of it but you can mention tidbit information here and there, like when you water the plants you can mention how the plant absorbs water and at the end say ain't that fascinating or somthing, just to get his/her attention on it, get them to THINK. i think education is based at the home, and if you leave all the responsibility of any education including schoolastically, streetwise, and morally, then your not gonna be the happiest parent with the best kids.

[Nessa_Fefalas]

I'll say this plain and simple: If no education takes place outside the school building, there is no point in sending your children to school in the first place. They'll never apply it to real life.

[n8squared]

It all depends on who does the teaching and if the student decides he/she wants to learn it. what is the defintion of a well educated student? is it a straight A student? or someone who excells in one subject?

[flimseycauldron]

Originally Posted by Lemongrass

Then any parent who wants to teach their children should get the qualifications, and where they don't have them, they can get someone with the right qualifications to teach their child, education doesn't necessarily have to happen in a traditional school setting.

Something like a network of people with different qualifications, for different subjects can all team up together, and if they have similar ideas about the type of education they want to provide can set up a community schooling system, that provides everything a traditional school would, and more. It is very possible.

This does happen and is quite common and is called a Homeschooling Co-Op. The great thing about Co-Ops is that you pick and choose how many and which classes you need help in. You are not forced to go to classes that there is no interest in or need for. And the main bulk of your education still takes place at home. It is more reminiscent of a college both socially and academically. However if you were to compare it to a typical k-12 school it would be more like a a school completely led by the local PTA. There are no government strictures and, usually, no grades. Learning is for the sake of learning, not for the sake of pleasing some big wigs to get funding for the next year.

[purplepinay808]

i think school is very important, high school especially. that is the one place where you can make friends in a safe place and where you can start finding your way through the world. but also think that learning outside of school is wholly possible. outside of school is where kids learn and practice good and bad things like drugs and sports and community services. outside of school is where most of the mistakes a child could make happen and where a child, especially teens, learn from their mistakes and make themselves tougher from them. all im saying is that yes school is important but having a good social life is also a grounds for learning

[merrymarge]

When I was in H. S., I didn't participate in any social activities. We didn't have community service. I just went to school, came home and did homework. my life was dull, but I didn't think it was until years later.

[Quickquill]

Of course education takes placed outside of school. People learn from all their experiences. The point is to provide as rich an environment as possible for a child to learn from. School is a formal environment for teaching subjects thought neccessary by society. But most people find some way to teach their value systems to their children as well, generally at home, sometimes at their place of worship. Socialisation also takes place mainly outside of school in more informal settings. And special interest activities are also a form of learning. There is no reason that a well educated parent should not be able to teach at least most elementary school subjects to their children successfully at home until the child is mature enough to want to go to school with other children. Everybody matures at a different rate, and some children are possibly better off home schooled, at least for a time.