Contrary to what you might think, home schooling is an extreme left-wing idea. And it is not only protective parents worried about moral decay and children being swayed by others who want to keep their offspring out of the classroom.
No less a leftist than Karl Marx wrote in his 1875 critique of the Gotha program that "elementary education through the state is altogether objectionable".
Marx went on to write that governments, aside from setting qualifications for teachers, setting up branches of instruction, "and supervising the fulfillment of these legal prescriptions.. should be excluded from any influence on the school."
I am indebted to Prof. David L. Bruch, of the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, for this startling information posted in The Bronx High School of Science Alumni News. I was not home-schooled and attended Science.
More for paid subscribers as I prepare to sail off into the sunrise, for a semi-working holiday in London and Marrakesh over Christmas and New Year's.
Source: http://global-investing.com/content/marxist-home-schooling
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