The article mentioned The main point of the article is that the current right-wing regime The Dowbrigade has long been an opponent of home schooling, except First, as a professional educator, we realize how difficult, complex And just like even The Dowbrigade, for example, teacher extraordinare, recently ignored In addition, some people, despite great And second, we are strong believers of the benefits of education as People need to read more than one book, to speak more than one language, Over the last four years, 22 conservative members of Congress have employed "I would definitely like to be active in the government of our country and "I would from the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The New York Times has a front page article today on Patrick Henry College ("The Mission of Patrick Henry College is to train Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/phc.jpg\")
The New York Times has a
\n front page article<\/a> today on
\n Patrick Henry College<\/a> ("The Mission of Patrick Henry College is to train
\n Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture
\n with timeless biblical
\n values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding"), an Evangelical
\n school primarily for kids who were home schooled. <\/p>\n
\n that about two thirds of
\n all home
\n school families identify themselves as Evangelicals, which surprised
\n us. We had always thought of the homeschoolers as a hodgepodge of sectists
\n and alternative life style extremists, due no doubt to the heterogeneous
\n eccentricities of New England variety of kooks and recluses. Obviously,
\n in other parts of the country, in the matter of home schools, Evangelism
\n Rules.<\/p>\n
\n in Washington is making liberal use of these kids. For example, of the
\n currently 100 interns working in the White House, 7 come from 240-student
\n Patrick Henry College. A former PHC intern is now on Karl Rove’s staff
\n full-time. It seems that the ideologically pure Christian home schooled
\n kids are gaining power and pull in the burgeoning neo-conservative movement.<\/p>\n
\n maybe for kids living at McMurdoo Research Station near the South Pole.
\n Our objections are basically two-fold.<\/p>\n
\n and many-faceted being a good teacher is. It takes years of training
\n and experience to just get adequate at it, and many people never get
\n beyond that point. If your kid needed brain surgery, you wouldn’t do it yourself,
\n would you, just to avoid the germs at the hospital? That’s basically what education is, after all – non-invasive brain surgery. <\/p>\n
\n the best doctors don’t like operating on family members, even the best
\n teachers falter when trying to teach their own flesh and blood.<\/p>\n
\n his own advice and tried to teach his teenaged son to drive the family
\n car. What an unmitigated disaster! The entire exercise ended with the
\n Dowbrigade himself getting thrown out of his own car by the State Trooper
\n during his son’s driving test. Lets not go there.<\/p>\n
\n intelligence, compassion and energy make terrible teachers,
\n and
\n trying
\n to be a parent,
\n care giver,
\n domestic manager and educator all at the same time makes each role
\n more difficult. <\/p>\n
\n an introduction to society, to working and competing with others, to
\n experiencing diversity and learning tolerance for people who look, and
\n act, and think differently than you. Although a family is a beautiful
\n things and can be the center
\n of a person’s existence, in an open society it must be balanced with
\n a commingling, an interaction, a mutual learning and exchange of ideas
\n with other people, other families, and other traditions.<\/p>\n
\n to study more than one religion. Not to BELIEVE in more than one religion,
\n but to know more than one in detail. People need to consider more
\n than one viewpoint if they ever hope to escape from the echo chamber.<\/p>\n\n
\n one or more Patrick Henry interns in their offices or on their campaigns,
\n according to the school’s records.<\/p>\n
\n stuff," Mr. Olmstead, 19, said as he sat in a Christian coffeehouse near
\n the campus, looking up from a copy of Plato’s "Republic."<\/p>\n
\n love to be able to be a foreign ambassador, and I would really like to
\n move into the Senate later in my career."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n