21 sats \ 18 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 23 Jul \ parent \ on: Punishment is a Public Good econ
Yes, it's a form of homeschooling, but most homeschooling isn't unschooling. Also, I suppose it doesn't have to be done via homeschooling.
It's sort of like how a square is both a rhombus and a rectangle, but in general rhombuses are not rectangles.
I get what you're saying, but I don't think it is quite right. Unschooling is a form of homeschooling, so Homeschooling isn't necessarily unschooling, but unschooling is homeschooling.
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I might have had a misconception about it then. I thought it was strictly an education methodology that hypothetically could be done by a private un-school or even a government un-school.
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I think we are getting off topic.
I said that public schools are better than no education.
Unschool is a type of education, as homeschooling is another type.
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In that case, I'd say that there's no such thing as no education. We're pattern seeking animals and learning is involuntary.
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What I mean is in a general sense of schooling.
Of course people are able to learn and manage life through their experiences.
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If unschooling counts as education, then there's no meaningful line between education and not education.
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Unschooling is not uneducated. I think the original comparison should have been uneducated vs. public School educated.
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If unschooling is learning from unstructured experiences, what could be a better counterfactual for assessing the value added by government schools?
It's not like I'm asserting that government school isn't better than being locked in a basement.