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Yep, schools are often liberalizing forces . . .

Posted by Markaba on 2012-January-28 03:27:33 EST, Saturday
In reply to You going to home-school them? posted by redcocoa101 on 2012-January-28 01:54:47 EST, Saturday
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. . . as I pointed out to kratt in ⛓️‍💥[Removed]. Perhaps it is more accurate to say that schools are moderating forces, which is a good thing. Schools serve an important societal function in tempering the more extreme antisocial perspectives and behaviors. Kids need to socialize with peers, since whatever aspects of their personality they didn't inherent genetically are almost certainly molded through peer interaction (parents really do not contribute much behaviorally towards shaping kids' personalities unless they are extremely abusive, as Stephen Pinker demonstrates in his books The Blank Slate and How the Mind Works), and what kids need to learn is to interact with all different sorts of people. This can be done without going to school, but kids need some way to interact with a variety of other kids, or at least a variety of other people whom they can modify their behavior against. It is important to their development. Schools are currently the best way to do that.


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