While you may think that with technology you may learn more on your own at home, please consider that even in this technological age not everyone has access to a home computer, and many small rural communities do not have such things at the local library. Many of the students I teach and have taught in the past consider having a home computer a luxury.

You may be motivated to do your own learning, but you are in the minority. Most kids would not learn on their own and their parents really cannot afford to stay home to homeschool.

Also, big business in this country dictates a great deal to the educational standards in this country. They decide what they want their potential employees to know and they do actually care about whether or not you completed high school before moving on to college.

You have an interesting idea, but I really don’t think that is is, or ever will be feasible.

While I do agree the problem with Education is Schools, the college experience is somewhat valid. Especially if you’re in a Masters or Doctorial Program for it’s about indepenent studies, which should have began in Elementary school.

As for the homework. I do that for my real job. I design forms at home to use at work.

I also write so I do tons of research, for more than I ever did in college.

I was writing this piece on Stock Footage, I believe, which was only going to pay me about $300 but I went to five different libaries incude two college ones 30 miles apart and I was on my 20th reference source when I heard this freshman say

“My professors wants this paper to have 7 reference sources! How Lame!”

I almost laughed so hard I felt I’d get 86ed from the library!

I was on my 20th reference source for a $300 article that only a few thousand people would read.

When your family Doctor prescribes a medication for you, I certainly hope he or she did their homework and reasearched the hundreds of drugs that might be of value and picked the right one for you to take.

Not just the one the Drug man walked into the office and gave him free samples of!

true, we could all learn at home or in front of a computer but there is no replacement for the social interaction you get every minute of every school day. people who spend their lives studying without learning social skills are very maladjusted in social situations. they don’t know how to speak or act with other people because they’ve spent their lives in books.

i can learn much more effectively on my own given the time but one rarely has the time these days. with work and family and the need for socializing it’s difficult to fit new learning in there. i still take classes because it provides a structure for me to learn in. a schedule that i can stick to.

it may not have been a good experience for you. but i think overall school is a good thing.