A gem
Just wanted to share a gem with you that we found in our local newspaper, of all places (a typical liberal-leaning rag, but give them credit for occasionally presenting the other side.)
This was an opinion piece by well-known columnist Thomas Sowell, one of our favorite conservative authors, called “Amateurs Outdoing Professionals“. Here’s the excerpt. It might not seem relevant at first, but follow it through:
“When amateurs outperform professionals, there is something wrong with that profession”.
“If ordinary people, with no medical training, could perform surgery in their kitchens with steak knives, and get results that were better than those of surgeons in hospital operating rooms, the whole medical profession would be discredited”.
“Yet it is common for ordinary parents, with no training in education, to homeschool their children and consistently produce better academic results than those of children educated by teachers with master’s degrees and in schools spending upwards of $10,000 a year per student”.
“Nevertheless, we continue to take seriously the pretensions of educators who fail to educate, but who put on airs of having “professional” expertise beyond the understanding of mere parents”.
(End of excerpt)
Hmmm, could it be all the time wasted in the public schools on liberal social indoctrination, plus their zeal in getting rid of the Bible and replacing it with the tenets of humanism? Nahhh!
Source: General Homeschooling
