Re: LOGO-L> What is learned with Logo?

[Chuck Shavit <CShavit@MagicSquare.com>]

At 07:08 AM 8/16/97 -0700, Dale R. Reed wrote:

>But that rich learning environment is available in real life.  Why is it
>in our(the taxpaying public) interests to isolate children and young
>adults at a cost of about $6000/year(in the U.S.) for 13 years?  Why not
>just let them learn what they want to learn, when they want to learn it,
>where they want to learn it, and from whom they want to learn it?  

Hi Dale,

History, especially American history, is full of stories of kids from poor
and illiterate homes, orphans etc. who made it big time without any formal
schooling.  One could argue that the $6K/year educational system that you
mention would be a total waste (if not worse!) for such kids.

But the vast majority of kids benefit enormously from structure.  The
majority of kids would not become another Edison or Kennedy or Gates if
they would be given the decision of what/when/where/from whom to learn.  

We'll never know what would have become of Einstein or Mozart had they been
given the freedom as kids to learn what they want to learn, when they want
to learn it, where they want to learn it, and from whom they want to learn
it.  My guess is that given such freedoms, their names would not have been
known by every student in every $6K/year school. 

Chuck Shavit
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