The public schools need to be eliminated; that is how to reinvent them.
The day we banish the government from all influence in education is the day America becomes a free country.
I agree, 100%. Vouchers will be a great start because they will kick the free market into gear.
Great scientists and scholars will write as well as teach and start schools/educational systems. Parents will start shopping. Institutionalized mediocrity and brainwashing will be on life-support very quickly.
No. They need to be eliminated. You don't have a right to force everybody pay for your beloved, so-called "free" garbage education system.
It starts with individual students and families. If there is a truly free market in education, great scientists, scholars, and artists will fill the demand for all the various needs and wants of the students and parents.
How do you suggest transitioning in to a free market? I am open to new ideas. I may be wrong about vouchers. My goal is to have the government completely out, and that eventually means no vouchers, of course.
The Socratic Method should be par for the course. But in order for it to actually be effective, kids must be taught formal logic. Without understanding sound logic, the truth is there is no Socratic Method, only a pedantic "style" of making statements in the form of questions.
I agree. I believe vouchers will help create competition against the mediocre, one-size-fits-all public schools. It will take time, though; you are right.
Good teachers should get paid more. The free market will insure that happens. Free market means the government must be absolutely prohibited from any influence. The best word you used is "compete." That is the key. The only way real competition will occur is if the government is completely out.
I have had the same experience with 1st generation Chinese here in the States. I am wondering if they are speaking their true feelings when they are still in China. I know Chinese immigrants themselves are very different than their first-generation children here in America - much less independent as thinkers and not as liberty-minded. I really appreciate your perspective on this. It is very intriguing.
Did you know that a US Representative brought our public school system from Prussia in 1850 to allow our government to turn us into passive and obedient servants to the will of the State?