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* Local self-government
 
* Local self-government
 
Freedom-Based Education
 
Freedom-Based Education
* Democratically run schools as a means of helping children learn to be responsible citizens of a free society.
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* Just as it is impossible to compel people to be truly good (Lucifer's plan), it is equally impossible to compel them to become truly educated. Our compulsory education laws and the compulsory nature of our educational institutions are self-defeating.   
* Just as it is impossible to compel people to be truly good (Lucifer's plan), it is equally impossible to compel them to become truly educated. Our compulsory education laws and the compulsory nature of our educational institutions are self-defeating.  (Need proof?  How many adults do you know who love learning about history, math or English?)
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* Compulsion Kills Incentive and Freedom Enlivens It!
* Compulsion Kills Incentive -- Freedom Enlivens It!
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* What if your child went to a school that was a microcosm of the greater free society in which s/he was to be an eventual participant?  That "school" would offer your child the same opportunities to get involved in the government of the school, just as you have the opportunity to get involved in the government of your community, state, and nation. Your child could participate in making, enforcing, and adjudicating laws on a school level, in preparation to wield those same responsibilities as an adult.  What better way could there possibly be to prepare you child to be a good citizen?

Revision as of 13:18, 14 May 2010

Content I want to work on next

  • Isaiah 2


A Little About Me

Jesse-fisher.jpg

Topics of Interest to Me

Achieving Zion

  • Finding better ways to organize societies, politically, socially, and economically (why wait?).
  • Belief work - replacing false beliefs with the truth as a means of personal growth (sanctification).

Sustainable Communities

  • Forest gardening - growing your own Garden of Eden.
  • Micro Economies - self-reliant neighbors exchanging goods and services.
  • Local self-government

Freedom-Based Education

  • Just as it is impossible to compel people to be truly good (Lucifer's plan), it is equally impossible to compel them to become truly educated. Our compulsory education laws and the compulsory nature of our educational institutions are self-defeating.
  • Compulsion Kills Incentive and Freedom Enlivens It!
  • What if your child went to a school that was a microcosm of the greater free society in which s/he was to be an eventual participant? That "school" would offer your child the same opportunities to get involved in the government of the school, just as you have the opportunity to get involved in the government of your community, state, and nation. Your child could participate in making, enforcing, and adjudicating laws on a school level, in preparation to wield those same responsibilities as an adult. What better way could there possibly be to prepare you child to be a good citizen?