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

[Tom Woods <woods@moose.ncia.net>]

Dale 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?  
>

A few thoughts about isolation-- For some kids, school might provide a safe
environment that is not available in a child's real world. For some kids,
school is the ONLY opportunity they have to read books, manipulate numbers,
or get a nourishing meal. For these children, it is not the school which is
isolating, but the home, or what passes for it.

On the flip side, there are those kids who get along just fine until they
start school. Then they are diagnosed with a learning disability.

This is a very complex issue with no easy answers.

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