ChinKing

interesting. I agree that coercion is the problem, but my worry with homeschooling is the social life of the child. Humans are social animals and school tends to be where children make most if not all of their friends, and romantic relationships tend to happen in high school. I think activities like boy/girl scouts, sports, or some sort of clubs may be good for a child's social life if they are home schooled (as long as the child wants to do it), yet things like that are usually one or two days a week, so i'd be worried that a child's social life would be impacted.

I was watching Stefan Molyneux's "gene wars" video, in which he spends some time explaining how prey/predators raise their young, why those two different classes raise their young that way, and the different behaviors of the two classes. As I watched this it occurred to me that if I had been learning the same subject in my high school, I most likely would have been bored to death, but during this video I was attentive and interested. Now this must partly have to do with Stefan's style of presentation (I doubt that an analogy to the classic FPS video game term "spray and pray" would be made of how certain animals ejaculate in a public high school), yet this doesn't seem to be the only reason for the huge difference in my attentiveness and interest. So I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas as to why subjects in school seem to be so much more boring when the same subject is interesting outside of school, and any solutions to this problem.