Comments on: Third Open Letter To Home Schoolers https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/ NoMoreFakeNews.com Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.10 By: JellaFella https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/#comment-26796 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 10:59:00 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=16835#comment-26796 Thank you for taking such a liberty. I have been following some youtubers for my own ‘adult education’, and they do a lot of stuff with rhetoric/trivium/quadrivium that was popular amongst tutors to European nobility in the middle ages, I’d say a modern middle-class homeschooling parent can match that with Renaissance-tier results. Check it out, you, Jon, of all people will appreciate the history and significance of these teaching methods!

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By: artemisix https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/#comment-26795 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:59:35 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=16835#comment-26795 I have loved the dialogues since i was in 5th grade. It is one of my most treasured books. I am so glad this course exists. Building one from the way i learned is not so easy and i was doing just that at one point. Doing it right is a Herculean task. Respect.

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By: Jacqueline https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/#comment-26794 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:57:04 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=16835#comment-26794 Home schooling is unbounded learning. All reductionist approaches dissolve away in favor of self-directed and passionate pursuits.. It is this freedom and independence which fosters a true love of learning.

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By: tomaz050959 https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/#comment-26793 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 16:11:07 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=16835#comment-26793 Every home school needs a logic course, in the same way that every home school needs to make sure children are literate.

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By: Ronald Thomas West https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2017/01/02/third-open-letter-to-home-schoolers-2/#comment-26792 Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:50:29 +0000 https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/?p=16835#comment-26792 I’m no fan of western philosophers, e.g. David Hume’s impossible postulation…

“In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in the ordinary ways of reasoning, and establishes the being of a God, or makes observations concerning human affairs; when all of a sudden I am surprised to find, that instead of the usual copulations of propositions, is, and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible; but is however, of the last consequence. For as this ought, or ought not, expresses some new relation or affirmation, ’tis necessary that it should be observed and explained; and at the same time that a reason should be given, for what seems altogether inconceivable, how this new relation can be a deduction from others, which are entirely different from it. But as authors do not commonly use this precaution, I shall presume to recommend it to the readers; and am persuaded, that this small attention would subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceived by reason”

…is summed up in Western ethics as ‘Hume’s guillotine’ or the ‘ought-is problem.’ Now, forgive my naiveté when faced with this immutable Western dilemma of philosophy where the ‘ought-is problem‘ is posed…

“how, exactly can an ‘ought’ be derived from an ‘is’? The question, prompted by Hume’s small paragraph, has become one of the central questions of ethical theory”

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I expect you can make an educated guess why my kid was finally home schooled…

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