Ancient Athens Did Not Need Licensed Teachers
Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher is an expert in the subject she teaches. In fact, in our upside-down public-school system, licensing often leads to ill-trained and mediocre teachers instructing our children. The notion that only state-approved, licensed teachers can guarantee children a good education is proven wrong by history. In ancient Athens, the birthplace of logic, science, philosophy, and Western civilization, city authorities did not require teachers to be licensed. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle did not have to get a teaching license from Athenian bureaucrats to open up their Academies. A teacher's success came only from his competence, reputation, and popularity. Students and their parents paid a teacher only if they thought he was worth the money. Competition and an education free market created great teachers in ancient Greece. Parents in America gave their children a superior education at home or in small grammar or religious schools for over two hundred years before we had public schools or licensed teachers. School authorities' claim that teachers have to be licensed for our children to get a quality education, is therefore false. Today, in millions of companies across America, bosses or their managers teach new employees job skills, from the simplest to the most complex. Private schools and trade schools teach millions of students valuable, practical skills. Thousands of college professors with masters or doctorate degrees in the subject they teach, instruct hundreds of thousands of college students in subjects ranging from philosophy to electrical engineering. Over a million home-schooling parents teach their children reading, writing, and math with learn-to-read or learn-math books, computer-learning software and other teaching materials. All these teachers are not licensed yet they often give children a far better education than licensed public-school teachers. Teacher licensing laws are simply a bureaucratic invention of our government-run public schools, an invention that we can do without, thank you. Joel Turtel is an education policy analyst, and author of "Public Schools, Public Menace: How Public Schools Lie To Parents and Betray Our Children."
Contact Information: Website: http://www.mykidsdeservebetter.com,
Email: lbooksusa@aol.com,
Phone: 718-447-7348. Article Copyrighted © 2005 by Joel Turtel.
NOTE: You may post this Article on another website only if you set up a hyperlink to Joel Turtel's email address and website URL, http://www.mykidsdeservebetter.com
|
|
 |
 |
Ancient Athens Did Not Need Licensed Teachers
Contrary to popular notions, teacher licensing in public schools does not insure teacher quality. A license also does not even insure that a public-school teacher is an expert in the subject she teaches.
Perfume In Ancient Greece
Perfume has been a desired commodity since ancient times and many of the techniques used are still used to some degree today. When looking at ancient attitudes towards perfume it is surprising to discover how much it actually reflects the expectations of it in the modern day. To understand the nature of it in Ancient Greece, historians rely upon written sources, excavated mosaics and other pictorial representations and artifacts such as perfume bottles. From these items, lots can be determined about the function, importance and production of it in ancient Greece.
East Texas Medical Center Athens Automates Staffing and Scheduling with RES-Q® Labor Resource Management
Full-service, 117-bed Hospital is Second ETMC Facility to Implement RES-Q Software to Manage Staffing and Scheduling
Former Admiral P.Kikareas of the Hellenic Navy, The Architect of the Global Security at the Olympic Games in Athens 2004, Comments on the Olympic Game
Admiral P.Kikareas appeals to all governments, peace organizations, the United Nations, and every group of diverse beliefs and interests to unite in creating a peaceful venue at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
Philadelphia- the New Athens
A city not only known as the city of American freedom or the birthplace of America but also known for the revolutionary role it has played since centuries. Welcome to Philadelphia, a life-size city in Pennsylvania and the birthplace of America. Philadelphia is often referred as the New Athens, the name first suggested for the work done by the famous native of the city Benjamin Franklin. Rightly so as Benjamin Franklin was responsible for the country's first insurance company, the city's first public library and the first fire department; Franklin also played a great role in establishing the city's Postal system as well as inventing new conveniences such as bifocal lenses and the Franklin stove.
CarSmarts Magazine Announces Acquisition of Athens-Based Used Car Publication Wheel N Waves Magazine
Wheels N Waves is purchased by CarSmarts to form the largest free automotive magazine in Georgia.
How to Get Discount Airfare from Athens to Los Angeles
Everyone needs and deserves a break once in a while and a vacation is the best way to escape from the mundane routine and unwind. However, getting there shouldn?t eat up your entire budget nor should the vacation be so expensive that you come back laden in credit card debt and have to work even harder and longer to pay that off!
The Ancient Olympic Games in Greece and China
The ancient Olympic Games were a four-yearly event with sporting activities as its main content and the cessation of hostilities among the city states in Greece as its main characteristic In those days, China also experienced divisions from time to time
Greece - Experience Living Ancient History in Crete
OK everybody hand up those of you who are familiar with the story of Theseus and the Minotaur? I ask this question not as an attempt to display to the world my knowledge of Greek legends and myths but rather to see if anybody has any idea as to the location of where the supposed legend took place?
McChesney Investment Advisors Announce The Launch Of 945 College, Athens' First True Integrated Mixed- Use Development
Residential and Commercial development set for 945 College Avenue to include 11 residential units and 13 commercial spaces.
Learning Holiday Will Explore the Mysteries of Ancient Greece
The Esoteric Quest conference (www.EsotericQuest.com) will take place on the Greek island of Samothrace, September 3-8, 2008. Scholars, philosophers, esotericists and artists will gather on this fabled isle in the North East Aegean Sea for a conference on the spirituality and philosophy of ancient Greece.
Philadelphia The New Athens
A city not only known as the city of American freedom or the birthplace of America but also known for the revolutionary role it has played since centuries. Welcome to Philadelphia, a life-size city in Pennsylvania and the birthplace of America. This city is often referred as the New Athens, the name first suggested for the work done by the famous native of the city Benjamin Franklin.
Hotel Indigo Athens Project Team to Donate $100,000 to UGA Music Business Program
A unique gift demonstrates sustainable development initiatives in support of the Athens music community.
Rose Sellers, One of Athens, Georgia's Premier Real Estates Agents is Proud to Announce an Increase Territory
Rose Sellers, one of Athens, Georgia's premier Real Estates agents is proud to announce an increase territory now expanding to which includes Clarke, Oconee, Madison, Oglethorpe, Jackson and Barrow Counties! While having Sellers as a last name for a Real Estate Broker never hurts, her determination to meet the client's exact needs is what's setting her apart from the rest of the competition.
Outskirts Press Announces 'Salted with Salt and The Altar of Silence,' the Latest Highly-anticipated Literary Book from New Athens, IL Author Jason
Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Salted with Salt and The Altar of Silence: Two Novellas by Jason Akley, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 5.5 x 8.5 Paperback in the Literary category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $16.95. The webpage at www.www.outskirtspress.com/novellas was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
|
 |
|
