Blog 40

Interviews With People About School (No Imaginative Title today.)

Interview With P. McCarthy (Dad)

Do you think that students get a better education from a private institution or a public one? Why?

Private. Less children in a classroom, the private school system have more resources, and therefore better equipped to provide. Public schools are to tied by bureaucracy, and while they may be fantastic individually, they fall down together.

How important do you value education for your children? To what lengths would you go to achieve the best possible level of education?

On a scale of 1-10? 10. It's not the lengths that I would go, it's the lengths my children are willing to go. Parents don't educate kids, they just put them in a position where they can be educated.

What do you think of homeschool?

I thinks it's highly impractical. Somebody then has to be at home, and that person has to be better educated in most disciples than ordinary teachers.

I think kids that aren't self motivated, for them it doesn't matter what school they go to. They're either intellectually curious or they aren't.

Can you make a kid intellectually curious?

not that i know of, schools offer a various selection of branches of intellectual curiosity, and its up to the kids to find them interesting. A certain amount of that has to do with what you do with your kids as they are young, ie reading to them or something.

If it would present a better opportunity for students to learn would you move?

provided that they were self motivate,d I would absolutely move. I think that tuition also shouldn't be a barrier from preventing kids from reaching their maximum potential.

What material do you think is the best to teach students?
Should they cater to an individual interest?

schools should have a well rounded curriculum, broad-based. at least for high school level, and college becomes the place where they can choose their own individual paths.

What do you think of the broad based material that we all tend to learn in high school? what kind of relevance does it hold for you, an adult out of college?

you can have a conversation with anyone; you dont have to be like duh. it makes you articulate and able to hold up in conversation. the stuff that is important lasts, the stuff that gets used lasts.