http://www.lewrockwell.com/taylor/taylor130.html
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Educational priorities in America’s schools, public and private, are rarely based on definitive long-range goals to meet the complete needs of students. There are certainly many fine educational examples, but too often those are limited in scope and not district-wide. Many occur by happenstance, or are brought about by a few excellent teachers, many of whom often provide instruction in unapproved ways; using unapproved materials; unsupported by administration.
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It need not be that way. There are fine models that America could replicate, in public and in private schools; in day schools and in residential. One model would be the educational whole-child philosophies and whole-life focus of The Institute of the Deaf, Sint-Michielsgestel, The Netherlands.
However, American educational decisions are too often made by people who put power over scholarship; ambition over the best interests of children.
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It’s most interesting how the subtle change in motivation from the US government school (i.e., treating the deaf) to a private school (i.e., the priest educates people who happen to be deaf) produces remarkable results. We have to get the government out of all sorts of things that it gets into because it wastes time, money, and people’s lives. imho
Reinke Faces Life 