QUOTE ABOUT EDUCATION

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. - Sir Walter Scott

Thursday 20 May 2010

Abortion

I know this is a home ed site, but this is a contentious issue - here's my slant on it:


Did the baby choose to be conceived? NO...
Did the baby choose to die? NO
Did the baby choose his/her parents? NO

Not much of a choice really is it?

Does the baby have the same DNA as his/her parents? NO
Does the baby have the same blood group as their parents? NOT NECESSARILY
Can the baby be conceived outside of a woman's body? YES
Can the baby be transplanted into another woman's body? YES

Looks like the baby is a seperate person to their mother and it's not their mother's body afterall!

Friday 14 May 2010

John Taylor Gatto

1. Confusion 2. Class Position 3. Indifference 4. Emotional Dependency 5. Intellectual Dependency 6. Provisional Self-Esteem 7. One Can't Hide. It is the great triumph of compulsory, government monopoly mass-schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among even the best of my students' parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things - John Taylor Gatto

Thursday 13 May 2010

Martin Luther Quote

I am much afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which means are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must be corrupt. - Martin Luther