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  1. Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
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  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Homeschooling
  5. In-Reply-To: msmorris@watsci.UWaterloo.ca's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:20:07 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Dec31104740@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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  14. Date: 31 Dec 92 10:47:40
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  17. Surely, society benefits from there being a variety of ways of
  18. educating children including home schooling.  There is enough
  19. experience with it, some people educated at home having reached
  20. their nineties, that we know it isn't a disaster.
  21.  
  22. My daughters went to public schools, perhaps not learning as
  23. much science as I hoped, but there was more available than they
  24. wanted to take.  My son is in second grade, seems to like school
  25. and is advancing rapidly in reading and arithmetic, probably
  26. much of it on his own.
  27. --
  28. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  29. *
  30. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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