{"id":27839,"date":"2012-05-09T14:33:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T20:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/what-is-the-goal-of-an-education.html"},"modified":"2012-05-09T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T20:33:07","slug":"what-is-the-goal-of-an-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/what-is-the-goal-of-an-education.html","title":{"rendered":"What is the goal of an education"},"content":{"rendered":"

"How you educate your kids isn\u2019t a matter of hiding them away from everything in the world you don\u2019t like, because eventually they\u2019ll grow up and look around (unless you\u2019ve done a really good job of stunting their minds) and discover it all anyway. Expose them to it all, fearlessly. Teach them how to think, not what to think."<\/i><\/p>\n

I would rather have my daughter honestly come to very different conclusions and beliefs about the world through her own thinking and research and intellect, than to have her slavishly mimic my own solely on my "authority" and those other "authorities" I would teach her to obey.<\/p>\n

I want a thinking human being as a daughter, not an ideological slave.<\/p>\n

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