Click, Clack, Moo: A Child's Feel-Good Primer on Unions

[KBCraig]

Aesop's Fables were a teaching tool in my youth

Funny... Lloyd was one of Aesop's students. 

[Lloyd Danforth]

No, but, everything I know I learned watching Aesop's Fables on The Rocky and Bullwinkle show

[John Edward Mercier]

Children Most people learn by doing.  I think a lot was culturally lost as people more and more rely on the gov't to teach.  That may be the big difference between in the past when kids went to public schools, and now.  In the past, parents still homeshcooled their kids to some degree, they just didn't feel the need to call it 'schooling'.  That may also be the difference between the gov't run schools in other countries, and the usa, cultural norms. 
A lot is lost, when the expectation of doing something for oneself is lost.  As an anarchist, this is very clear to me.  The reliance of many on the services is so very high.  People expect that if all else fails, the gov't is still there.  This is true in safety, (police), and in education(school).  It doesn't even matter if the expectation is pratical or not.  some times the police respond to a call half an hour later, or the education sucks, or you're trying to use the wonderful courts, and it is taking 6 months.  The existance of the expectation, is what is important, and it virtually dictates how a person will respond to different situations.  New Orleans after katrina is a textbook example.  That was not anarchy, that was a failure of 4 different levels of gov't to fulfill their promises, and meet the expectations of the people. 

My grandfather gave me Aesop's Fables as a storybook when I was two.

Dave, I don't know anyone that believes that the police ensure their safety, any more than the fire department ensures that your house won't catch fire. Think of the insurance savings if such a thing were true.
I think you'll find the home schooling issue to be more of available time (two income families), and resources. Today's internet has greater access to knowledge than even the multi-million dollar libraries where I studied as a child.

[Eli]

Aesop's is a mixed bag.  A lot in there about bowing to authority. 

[mvpel]

If you lived at the time of Croesus, bowing to authority was an important survival skill.

[RattyDog]

I love Aesop's Fables.

[Eli]

I didn't say it wasn't adaptive, I said it wasn't necessarily a tool for raising independent libertarian children.

[Pat McCotter]

No, but it does work on giving them a conscience.

[Eli]

Obey the master is a building block for conscience?

[Pat McCotter]

 

[John Edward Mercier]

Obey the master is a building block for conscience?

More a building block for avoiding a lifetime of 'wedgies'.