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Exploring Alternative Education Types: The Good, The Bad, and The... Whaaaa?
This video explores various perspectives on education, focusing on homeschooling versus traditional schooling. The speaker highlights misconceptions about social skills in homeschooled children, stating they often excel compared to traditionally schooled peers. The conversation also delves into different educational methods categorized by location, medium, and curriculum, discussing the potential benefits and drawbacks of each. It touches on the importance of adapting educational systems to the modern era, including utilizing AI and online resources. Through humorous anecdotes and personal experiences, the conversation critically examines traditional education models and their applicability today.
Malcolm Collins: [00:00:00] like they've done big meta studies on this persistently.
Homeschooled kids are better socialized, they're better leaders, they're like, better in pretty much every category. And people are like,
Yeah, but I remember I've engaged with homeschool kids and they have no social skills and I'm like, okay
try to bring them back to your memory Do you remember why you thought they had no social skills? Was it that they were unusually well mannered? Was it that they didn't engage in petty social politicking? Was it that they didn't randomly get mad at people who picked on them? Is it that Maybe they were socialized by adults instead of children
Speaker: hey kid, get out of that hamster ball. Oh, I promised my father I wouldn't. Oh boy
Speaker 2: You best do what he says, homeschool kid. Well, this is our part of the playground, see, , we're going to duct tape you to the bench.
Speaker 3: You mean you would actually duct tape my entire body to a bench?
For what purpose?
Okay, okay, , okay,
Speaker 2: okay, okay,
Speaker: okay, okay. Have a nice second half of the day, Nerdo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you shouldn't be
Speaker: such a smart mouthed Mr. Know it all. [00:01:00] Oh dear.
Speaker 4: Enjoy your lunch, nerdo! Ah! Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me! Oh, dude, you don't say that!
Malcolm Collins: About the only homeschool kids. I've seen that have persistent problems are the ones from very religious backgrounds where it included denying them access. To either common media . Or denying them the right to date and stuff
Speaker 15: mother knows best, it's a scary world out there. Something will go wrong, I swear. Ruffians, thugs, also large buds, men with pointy teeth,
Malcolm Collins: and then they become like sex freaks.
Speaker 11: In canon, I don't care. I ship it. I don't care. I know that they are siblings, but I think there's something more. If she were dating that guy, they'd be banging, I am sure.
Would you like to know more?
Simone Collins: HEllo,
Malcolm Collins: I'm excited to [00:02:00] be here with you today. Today. We are going to have an interesting conversation. It is going to be about.
Education because I was having a conversation recently where I realized how. Incorrectly, a lot of Americans think about education because they confuse the actual choices they have around educating their children. And I would say that all of the choices that we make around educating our children should be categorized into three buckets.
And you should not confuse these buckets are almost totally interchangeable with each other. And Simone is going to hate the names of one of these buckets and we'll let her choose a um, , , the first bucket is location. The second bucket is Medium, but Simone also likes to call it method, so method, I'll say.
And the third button, it, bucket is curriculum.
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago