Homeschooling has pros, cons

Homeschooling has pros, cons

A presumed sage opines about homeschool.

My fear that some home-schooling parents inculcate their children with a very sophisticated sense of paranoia about “the world.” The modern prejudice for the nuclear family is itself nuts — no other culture raises children this way — but I fear that the nuclear family in too many cases evolves into the Paranoid Family, whose primary message to the children is: “Trust no one. Ever. Except family.” Which is pretty much the ethos of the Corleone Family from Mario Puzo’s novel “The Godfather.” Read more…