Damage Limitation: Trying to Reduce the Harm Schools Do to Children

Damage Limitation: Trying to Reduce the Harm Schools Do to Children by Roland Meighan

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I take it for granted that most homeschooling parents these days are nationalists who do so because they don’t want their kids being dumbed down and indoctrinated by the leftist educational establishment.

This book, then, is somewhat odd: a defence of homeschooling written by lefty-liberal types who see the school system itself as ‘fascist’, and even quote the terrorist Nelson Mandela as a moral authority!

A real curiosity.

The book has a few good quotes, e.g.:

‘They work to pass, not to know: and outraged science takes her revenge. They do pass and they don’t know…’ - Thomas Huxley

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ - W. B. Yeats



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