I ran across this link this evening, and immediately the questions flew through my mind.  This makes me sad, why do we have to assume that because a child isn't "learning" rote grammar and mathematical problems, that the child will be "uneducated"? Can't (and shouldn't) life learning experiences be a major part of a child's education, instead of cramming facts and figures that the child will never use again and wasting 12 years of said child's life with such facts?


Secondly, the writer of the article assumes that the children exposed to this type of education will be relegated “... to the creation of a permanent, uneducated underclass” because of this project.  Don't we already have a permanent uneducated underclass?  The basic thing that we as humans are called to do, take care of the earth, is shoved to the side because we feel that "book learning" is much more important.  What's wrong with exposing a child to farmlife?  We have few enough farmers as it is because of this kind of attitude.


Children should be taught who they are and what they are meant to do, not how to  make the most money in this life.


             "Train a child in the way he should go,
                        and when he is old he will not turn from it."
                                                            Proverbs 22:6