You aren t compelled to loan your car to anyone who wants it, but you are compelled to surrender your school-age child to strangers who process children for a livliehood, event though one in every nine schoolchildren is terrified of physical harm happening to them in school. Your great, great grandmother didn t have to surrender her children. Exactly what John Dewey heralded at the onset of the twentieth century has indeed happened, our once highly individualized nation has evolved into a centrally-managed village, an agora made up of huge special interests which regard individual voices as irrelevant. The masquerade is managed by having collective agencies speak through particular human beings. Dewey said this would mark a great advance in human affairs, but the net effect is to reduce men and women to the status of functions in whatever sub-system they are placed.
Public opinion is turned on and off in laboratory fashion.
All of this in the name of social efficiency, one of the two main goals of forced schooling. If you need all of the statistics and more information, please read his soon to be released book in it s entirety. Socialization is not done by confining children within four walls, making them sit still, shut up, stand in line, ask questions only at appropriate times, obey mindlessly and respond appropriately to the harsh noise of bells and the shriek of playground monitors whistles. School-type socialization is a dynamic which clearly is designed to bring people under the control of authority and to obedience to group standards, norms and peer pressure. The Socialization of Homeschooling True socialization enables the powers of emotional, spiritual and intellectual development to grow together at a gentle pace just as the individual grows physically and mentally.