This chapter showed several different ways in which people are able to learn without going to a public school. I really enjoyed the section on seniors taking learning trips that are meant to teach them about the places in which they are visiting. The section on homeschooling I found to be the most valuable. I always hear people argue that children that are home schooled are not properly socialized and I do not feel that is always the case since they have programs now that involve several home schooled children t hat helps them to get together and go on field trips together and become involved with each other. In this chapter the most compelling argument for me against home schooling was the following quote: "Home schooling goes against the spirit that moved Horace Mann and his colleagues to advocate universal schooling in order to integrate people from diverse cultures to share common knowledge and values"(70). This quote clearly states what I fear is the biggest problem with home schooling. The students are sheltered from other students that hold different beliefs from themselves in which they could grow as people and individuals. By having this complete separation and the parents having complete control over what the children are taught and whom they are exposed to, cultures, religions and ethnicity's, they are essentially robbed of the education of diversity.
Reference: Collins, Allan and Halverson, Richard. Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology. 2009. Teachers College Press. New York.
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