Discussion Board Three:
1.
What are some of your initial ideas about
homeschooling before you read? What do you think is the ultimate purpose of education?
The education of children at home is known as homeschooling.
Parents typically carry this out. I myself have heard a lot of positive things
about homeschooling, and when I was younger, my mother taught me the basics at
home. Therefore, I agree that homeschooling is beneficial.
2.
Describe some of Megan’s experiences as a
homeschooled student in what her mom terms “delight-directed integrated study.”
Her mother taught her a variety of subjects, including history, music,
and health. Her mother gave her practical instruction and afterward tested her
knowledge of the material by asking her a number of questions. Books would be
mailed to their home, and their mother would mention a few things from them but
never go into great detail. Homeschooling's drawback is that it is only as good
as our parents and what they deem to be "right" for us. In Megan's
situation, her mother refused to discuss subjects like algebra that she didn't
find interesting. When she brought a dead turtle for them to "inspect and
dissect" for science class, her mother tried to make up for the oversight.
3.
How does O’Gieblyn trace the foundations of
homeschooling to the Enlightenment era?
She makes a comparison to their freedom. In contrast to
youngsters who are taught in school to follow directions and become employees,
they have time to be independent in their views and choose what they want to do
with their lives. These youngsters frequently lack mental independence.
Children at school are typically confined and guided through a system that aims
to limit their thoughts and forces them to be dependent on a company or their
place of employment, compared to Megan. But she also explains that the Enlightenment
era has a downside, which is this is dependent on the parents, if the parents
decide to abandon their child without teaching the basics fully, he/she might
not be able to get used to society or when they get out of their house because
of the unfamiliarity and the lack of education that they have received.
4.
Later in the essay, she discusses the case
of the Austin Package Bomber, Mark Conditt, who was homeschooled. The media
seized on this to portray his isolation. Does O’Gieblyn feel media portray
homeschooling fairly in this passage?
She does not believe
that it was depicted fairly, though. Most people have a false idea about
homeschooling because of fear. She argues that while it might have played a
role in his motivation to commit murder, such as estrangement, it was not the
only factor. She describes how it is upsetting that the school was referred on
Twitter to a neo-Nazi gang. This also explains why her mother "ascribed to
the World" and how they assume stupid things about homeschooling, like those
who are homeschooled are imprisoned in their homes with no freedom while others
who are psychologically jailed for their absurd thoughts are free to think
whatever they want.
5.
Contrast her experience as a homeschooled
student to what happens when she enrolls in a public school?
When she was homeschooled, she learned what she was
interested in and had the freedom to pursue it. She was free to do what she
wanted throughout the day, which was mostly reading a book or exploring the
forest. She lived in solitude and was free-minded compared to when she went to public
school. She had to do subjects that did not resonate with her, which made it
really difficult for her to adjust because she was not interested in them.
There was a time she got in trouble doing homework for another class other than
the class she was in. She found it crazy that you have to sit around and learn
something you are not interested in. The vast difference she felt made her
become self-conscious and made her lonely. She found herself trying to adjust
to the laughter, and crazy conversation of her school friends, which tired her
out. She found herself becoming lonelier as the days went by.
6.
Why do you think O’Gieblyn choose to finish
with a critique of the bestselling memoir, Educated? Did you agree or disagree?
She
wanted us to take not how society portrays one thing as being horrible and
horrid to one’s life and that one needs someone else to think for them. Even
though Westover had some difficulties growing up, she never blamed her parents
which made society point fingers at her, trying to find fault for her deciding
to do that and saying that she does not know her own mind and that she was in a
bad situation, not realizing that it might be them who do not have control of
their own mind and that they are not free. My favorite line is “We are all like
Frankenstein’s
monster, victims of our own miseducations,
a motley
patchwork of the influences that have shaped us,
sometimes
without our awareness or consent.”
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