Education in Taiwan (Part 2)

Part 2 Why Can't We All Be Home-schooled

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Part 1 Problems With Public Schools: teachers

Part 3 Experimental Schools Won't Fit Us

Part 4 How To Work As a Taiwanese English Teacher

We've talked about how good AND bad homeschooling could be. To be honest, it really depends on individual families. Their work environment, ideology, skill sets, temperament, the rationale...etc. would matter greatly. In fact, everything is simply amplified; good becomes great and bad becomes worse.

Nonetheless, for those, such as Andy, who have the confidence and prospect of carrying out this form of education, homeschooling would be great or might even be the only choice.

This time we would like to explore the possibility of homeschool education taking the majority of the system. What If most of us were homeschooled?

As previously mentioned, it differs from public schooling where teachers follow a course plan that is designed to be delivered to students and to tell them what is considered important. Homeschooling emphasizing on individuality and different character needs. In other words, it embraces differences, or welcomes them.

On the surface, the idea seems good. Everyone seems to be taken care of, don't they? First of all, if homeschooling were mandatory, it would defeat the purpose of embracing differences. It'd be like living in a world of democracy but you have to vote or be punished.

To look deeper, we do not possess the capability of accommodating such diversity in any education system. Therefore, most of us who were to be homeschooled, would have to have parents or families that fit the qualification.

(We haven't even talked about the teachers.....)

Furthermore, students who are homeschooled are encouraged to explore, to wonder and to freedom, which in our society now means more or less chaos. We tend to think in binary situations, either conformity(like everyone else) or disorganization.

We'd love to see that day when schools provide student-based learning and most or at least more of students' needs are met. But until that day comes... we'll leave this question to be a quick ending of this especially short piece...

What if there were no more public schools and we were left with small private ones that host about 5 to 10 students a class due to extremely low birth rate? Would homeschool education finally take its place up to the top of the mountain? If so, why not now?

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