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@ You can say that each of us must take care of ourselves or arrange to be taken care of. Does that require algebra? spelling?
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@ Yes, including the dogs-- who also don't go to school.
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@ Bobby Fischer lacked a lot of basic social skills, and yet made a living. He had something people wanted.
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@ BTW, I see a way to critique my statement about literacy. Feel free to spot the error before I say what it is.
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@ Basic skills in my household are not defined by any society outside of these walls.
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@ Therefore literacy, per se, is not a basic skill.
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@ For instance, in Sweden I am illiterate (I can't read or write Swedish). And yet I have worked productively in Sweden.
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@ I would argue that what comprises "basic skills" is a political and cultural matter, subject to debate.
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@ The nature of a "free" society is that it seeks to minimize compulsion without destroying society itself.
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@ We are compelled by our society, family, temperament, etc. to behave in certain ways, and not in other ways.
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@ Beyond being alive, there are lots and lots of ways to live.
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@ The Original Compulsion is that we are brought into life, and our friends and parents require us to stay alive.
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@ It's compulsion if anything is required and there's no way to opt out.
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@ It's fair to say "I felt good about my experience in the compulsory education system." But that doesn't justify compulsion.
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@ I don't know what is the "best" way to grow up, but I doubt that if I have only one choice, that choice is necessarily best.
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@ Anyone who had a non-hideous upbringing is going to say that their upbringing was important.
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@ Two hundred years ago, slave labor was a major part of the economy, down there (and up here, too). That changed, too.
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@ I'm just asking how you know all this? I hope your respect for me is based on the fact that I don't just believe what I'm told.
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@ Dude, my point is that most people assume it's a good use of their time, without evidence.
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@ You KNOW that? What study of alternatives have you made?
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- Name James Marcus Bach
- Location Eastsound, WA
- Web http://www.buccan...
- Bio Author of Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar, high school dropout, unschooling parent, philosopher, neo-pyrrhonian skeptic, software tester
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