Thursday, February 19, 2009

John Locke on Home-Schooling

I heard Albert Mohler mention the philosopher John Locke on his radio program.  I thought I'd look up the article and post it here, since it's from the "real" John Locke.

Home schooling is hardly foreign to the American experience. John Locke’s advice to parents in colonial America was to educate their children at home. He could not imagine “what qualities are ordinarily to be got from...a troop of playfellows [at school]…usually assembled together from parents of all kinds.” Even if the teacher’s industry and skill “be ever so great, it can[not]…be expected that he should instruct them successfully in anything but their books.”

Full Article:  Hoover Institution - Education Next - The Home-Schooling Special

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