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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you let an unschooled professional:  doctor, lawyer, architect, dentist, etc - do significant work for you or someone you love?  If you would, then you go on ahead and unschool all you want.  I'd much rather my professionals be taught the old fashioned way...where someone independent ensures the basics for the educational foundation are present.

Oh - and to the OP:  I DO think teachers are more skilled at teaching.  Yes, not all are great but teachers have to take courses, certify to teach, they are taught HOW to teach...parents are not.  Why do you think so many parents his driving school companies to teach their kids to drive?[/quote]

One more thing from OP here. You refer to the "old fashioned way" of learning, but unschooling IS the old-fashioned way of learning, before compulsory K-12 education came into existence. People learned life skills from their parents, peers and other members of the community in an organic way. Professions were learned by apprenticing with more skilled individuals. The great thing is that now we have so many more opportunities to learn from so many sources, so it's possible to learn anything, without ever having set foot in a compulsory school.[/quote]

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