[USA Today] Brangelina Thinks the Best Education is...No School?

Yes, because Brangelina don't have access to the best public and private schools.

 

It makes sense if your family has a couple of multi-millionaires in it.

 

Pretty much. If the only thing you need to have an education for is to sound smart when talking to other elites, no need to be able to write code, solve integrals or draw molecules.

 

Totally agree with her.

 

Yeah we can learn our yungin's better at home then them therr public schools.

Put their future in OUR hands

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Nice to see celebrities using their fame to undermine the education system.

That sounds like fun and all, but what the hell can you actually do with that? Where's the discipline, or the testing needed to make sure they actually pick up knowledge or skills?

But of course the child of millionaire celebrities doesn't have to worry about practical things like getting a job.

 

The education system has undermined itself already.

 

I agree, having had experience with some of the top institutions, so much is dependent on your learning outside to really quench your intellectual curiosity. School often becomes about memorization which is the lowest form of learning and then rather than focusing on really exploring and appreciating the fields, you end up getting obsessed with the arbitrary criteria of deadlines and making a certain grade which doesn't always go hand in hand with truly challenging yourself, the material, and truly progressing and stretching your mind.
If you have the money and resources, and unorthodox approach with travel, exposure to different perspectives, interactive things like the museums and hand on projects, with lots of reading, instruments, etc is probably more effective in developing a creative, original, curious mind that could succeed and innovate with the best of em.

 

They probably have a lot of experience with museums, world travel, musical instruments, and literature.

 

Their kids arnt going to be analysts, engineers, chemists, etc. Obviously they don't need a standard education like the rest of Americans.

 

Her plan is great... for kids who were born with money.

 

Love it, have always thought I would like to do the same thing if I was in a similar situation.

I have an issue with the purpose of education these days. If I could make an analogy, our brain is where we keep our processor and hard drive. It seems education has become more and more focused on increasing the amount of information on the hard drive, and less about developing a more powerful processor.

What's happening here is Brangelina think that it's more important at this point in time to develop the processor since the hard drive is already being filled with information in lots of ways.

I also refute the idea that this method can't work without testing. This method does not need testing. As long as no obstacles to learning exist (learning disorders), then this method would make a person hold himself/herself to a standard which he/she and all the support mechanisms (parents, teachers, etc) consider acceptable. After a basic education phase, a person would show interest in some things more than others, and if you allow them to practically pursue those interests, I'm certain they would be likely to pursue a deeper knowledge than that which an educational institution could give to masses of people.

Still, I would be hesitant. There is something in the back of my head saying you wouldn't want a child to grow up and say "I wish you had allowed me to experience high school like everyone else." and I do think there's unique value in that system as well.

 

In my opinion it is not a good idea.

The value of public school (or any school with a good variety of kids) is learning to interact effectively with people outside of your family and different levels of people (whether it be intellectually, financially or anything else).

I think that public education has a lot to be desired, but one will learn based on their motivation, but the interactions is invaluable, just hanging around with your family (and in these kid's cases, the press), is just not going to teach them to be well rounded at all.

 

As an alternative for THOSE WHO CAN QUALIFY to DO IT, then yes. If that means 30% home schooled, 70% public schooled, then do it if the school regimen is holding some kids back.

The same way some kids qualify for acceptance into the university, need some kind of accepted criteria for the home schooling instructors. Not just enlightened parents always looking for a different source of enrichment who want to give it a shot.

There are already a lack of GOOD instructors in public schools where there can be ratios of 1 teacher to 20 kids. Can you actually create MORE instructors to make a 1 teacher to 3 kids ratio all around? Are women and men going to stay home more from work, or not even work at all to oversee the teaching?

Sadly it'll probably take a "boycott" yanking kids out of the public schools for the education system to improve.

 

Who cares. The people that use the choices of celebrities to make important life choices would probably make the wrong choice anyway (since they are not so bright).

Celebrities are not responsible for the choices of other people. Why should they be a role model.

 

This. What a dumb story about dumb people.

 

Texas has a well-developed homeschooling network. Texans who take it seriously aren't missing a lot of education by it. Of course, I don't know how seriously Brangelina are taking it (didnt bother reading article).

 

If you are rich you can do what ever you feel like. As for home schooling, most American parents cannot handle teching their kids advanced AP classes in math and science. If you want you kids to be in those fields, home schooling is not going to help prepare your kids for them.