What is Homeschooling and Unschooling?
Channel: Mises India
Date: 2020-06-23

The great American journalist, essayist, satirist and cultural critic H L Mencken used to say, "The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else."

How to undo this damage that the public education system does to our societies? What are the better alternatives of the public education system? In his recent interview with his former student Mises India President Dr. Raj discussed the ideas of 'homeschooling and unschooling'.