education

"We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control," Pink Floyd sang. But to become functional humans, all children have to learn something, somehow.

What bloggers really don't agree on is how. There's a strong blogging community around homeschooling, but also strong defenders of state education in many countries. Other bloggers are just concerned about how to find the best private school.

In many parts of the world, meanwhile, parents and children are struggling to work out how to get any education at all. And then there's the whole debate about what children should be taught: from matters of sex to evolution, and much more...

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Original Technorati articles tagged “education”

• in TV
  Precious Knowledge Looks at Education Controversy in Arizona
  Documentary PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE explores the heated controversy surrounding Mexican American studies in Arizona public schools
  by missbobetier / on May 16, 2012
• in Business
  Yahoo Chief Scott Thompson Quits
  Scott Thompson resigns from Yahoo! amid new claims that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
  by cmimanagers / on May 14, 2012
• in Politics
  Thinking in Shades of Gray
  Alabama's debate over immigration law is an opportunity to practice thinking
  by coachlorraine / on May 12, 2012

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