On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:20:41 -0700, Joe
wrote:

On Sep 14, 5:09 pm, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:
"Joe" wrote in message

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BTW I agree Bob, they need an education. Not much use navigating if
they can not read a chart and do a bit of math.. Then again, we need
someone to run the needle guns and flip burgers.

Have you turned into a moron lately, Joe? You say they need an
"education" as if an education was something you could actually receive
in public schools.

Woooooowww now. Any parent IMO can provide a better education, and
aboard a boat traveling the world will be the best. But the parents
have to as you state teach the the three R's, or better yet home
school teaching all the required courses that they can get a diploma
and move on to higher education if they so desire.


Stop for a moment and think how public schools have
very little to do with education nowadays. They're all about a
bureaucracy whereby incompetent teachers and administrators make large
salaries and do no educating. Rather, their jobs have become
indoctrinating young minds into the socialist agenda.

You failed to mention public shhools have become favorite shooting
grounds for the brain dead wackos.

Any children on a cruising yacht, with whom their parents spend two
hours a day teaching them the three R's, will be more highly educated
than the mind-numbed retards the public school system produces.


I agree 100% and hope the parents take the time and effort required.

And
combine that real education with the interaction they have with
different cultures and they will be far better human beings.

Indeed, the best education on earth, but in most cases not good
enough to land many rewarding careers. And unless the kids are super
smart and able to forge thier own path to success, not having a degree
will stymie them.

The only
problem I foresee is if the woman does all the teaching. The man should
do the lion's share of it.

I think both could add value.

Joe

Wilbur Hubbard


Based on the forty years, or so, I have lived outside the U.S. I'd say
that any interaction between American kids and local kids is minimal,
nearly nonexistent in fact. True, I know of one or two cases where
the families lived in a remote areas of town where there were no other
foreigners and the 5 year old played with the local kids and picked up
Japanese in a few months, but that was extremely rare.

Most foreign families outside the US live in foreign enclaves,
associate only with other foreigners, shop only in stores selling
foreign goods and the local culture has little or no effect on them.

I have also seen innumerable "home schooled" kids on yachts and I'd
guess that as far as the three R's go they are equal to kids educated
in America however few of them get much of any grounding in the
sciences or higher math.

I think if I had children young enough to go to school I'd be happy to
see them home schooled until about the age of 10-12 when I'd prefer to
have them in a formal school system.


Bruce in Bangkok
(brucepaigeATgmailDOTcom)