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    LandonWalsh reacted to CrowEpistemologist in The Most Important Issue Objectivists Should Focus On....   
    Exactly. And to expand my maybe-too-cryptic point above ("our house our rules"), it's simply unrealistic to imagine that any government-financed institution will remain free for very long. Voters won't put up with their money going someplace they don't like, and the politicians will come in and make a career out of it, and so forth. Private schools that start taking vouchers will be defacto government schools within a decade or sooner. Vouchers are just a way to slowly-but-surely turn private schools into government-run schools (and Charters are just a way to instantly turn private schools into a public schools).
     
    I dread the day my fellow parents greedily accept a discount on their school tuition in exchange for their long-term freedom. They will have sold their future for a trifle.
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    LandonWalsh got a reaction from CriticalThinker2000 in The Most Important Issue Objectivists Should Focus On....   
    Well for starters, children will get indoctrinated with religion regardless of what school they go to.    The big difference with public schools, is that not only are they being dumbed down but they are also indoctrinated by the state in public schools.

    Further, I said the promotion of:  Rational Private Schooling, Homeschooling, and the Voucher Program.   

     Unless responsible and well-meaning parents are armed with the philosophical knowledge to be able to choose a rational educational method for their children i.e., a type of educational method that will fully prepare their children for successful adult life then it is quite likely that the results will be just as disappointing for them as for those parents who have left their children’s education in the hands of the state.
     
    There are plenty of Rational private schools out there...     Thanks to Rand, and Leonard Peikoff's "Teaching Johnny to Think: A Philosophy of Education Based on the Principles of Ayn Rand's Objectivism"  I did the research on the Montessori school my daughter will be going to.
     
    For me A PROPER RATIONAL Education would resemble:
    Montessori education in Primary school.
    Cognitive education in Middleschool, and
    Cognitive, autodidact and specialization education for highschool.



    A good video on the connections of Objectivist philosophy and Montessori education can be found here:  

     
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